The Incredible Dream Book: A Vilde Walter Tale

By Farid Bonawiede

Vilde Walter, ten years old, finds a strange book in the attic of his family's house. It is bound in green velvet and marked with a moon in an open hand. The pages are blank until he reads them - at which point the book writes, of its own accord, a story that answers a dream or a question he has been carrying that same day.

The first story, about a boy who cannot wait, helps him understand that his own time belongs to him. The second, about a girl who has hidden her voice, gives him the courage to reach out to his classmate Elin, who barely speaks. The third, about an apple tree that no longer dares to blossom after losing something dear, opens up a grief he has locked away since his grandmother's death.

When he discovers an old photograph in which his grandmother Anna is holding the exact same kind of book, he begins to sense that the book belonged to more than just him. At his grandmother Ingrid's flat, he says aloud for the first time that he misses his grandmother Anna - and feels, for the first time, that he is still himself after saying it.

Then the book falls silent. Day after day he opens blank pages. But he doesn't notice, at first, that he has already begun to act on what the book has given him: he raises his hand in class, he sits down in the silence beside Elin, he finally speaks up to the class bully Malte.

When he writes his very first own question in the book - "Who am I when no one tells my story for me?" - he receives the answer he was already on his way to finding: that he is someone who dares to listen. And that the adventures go on, when he is ready.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9190210018
• ISBN13: 9789190210017
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Carpe Consulting AB
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"