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Slater and Ceccoli are ideally paired, with the incantatory rhythms of the prose mirroring the velvety surfaces and Zen-like vibe of the acrylic and pastel paintings. The result is a book that's both engrossing and lulling—a wonderfully offbeat choice for bedtime.
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Ceccoli’s beautiful, lyrical illustrations, in acrylics and pastels, give a mythic quality to Slater’s tale of firefighting derring-do, told by a little girl snugly asleep in her bed and imagining where the sirens are going... Endearingly, Slater captures a young child’s view of the world and a very different role for firefighters than usually seen by this audience." 
~Kirkus Reviews >

Snug in her bed, a youngster hears a distant siren and dreams of firefighters’ brave escapades. Slater’s rhythmic, sometimes rhyming prose captures the child’s enthusiasm…Ceccoli’s dreamy, luminescent paintings perfectly suit the story…A perfect choice for bedtime reading.
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• Bio • Baby Shoes • Firefighters In The Dark
• The Sea Serpent And Me
by Dashka Slater
illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli
Houghton Mifflin, 2006

My son loved firefighters so I spent a lot of time reading books about them. But most firefighter books are nonfiction, and few have the magical quality that I like best in children’s books. One day I was complaining about this fact to my father, and he suggested I write my own.
I wanted to capture the feeling you have when you’re lying in bed listening to sirens. I’m always curious about where those fire engines are going, aren’t you?

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