<i>The Blue Forest: Bedtime Stories for the Nights of the Week</i> by Luke Fischer, illustrated by Stephanie Young and Tim Smith

These tales are from a wondrous forest Where trees are blue and flowers sing, A small girl finds a glowing chest Enclosing jewels, pearls, a ring. A boy who sleeps high in a tree Is woken by a blue bird’s song, And a red bird’s melody Inspires dreams the whole night long. The Blue Forest is a collection of seven highly imaginative bedtime stories—a story for each night of the week, each featuring one of seven colors. The stories are set in a magical blue forest and tell of mysterious nighttime events and relationships involving humans, animals, and nature.In the first story, a small girl, wearing a dress as white as the stars and embroidered with fine golden thread, walks a path through the forest of blue trees. While making her way through the silent woods, she discovers a casket of jewels from which she selects a silver ring. As she places it on her finger it twinkles in unison with a star, which just at that moment peers through the foliage of a nearby tree. In the last story an