Review: Dreams and gobbledygook
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
When I was a kid in the 1950s, games like "Gibberish" were a lot of fun, and in that era, entertainers like Norm Crosby made careers out of using gobbledygook and malapropisms in their acts. Sigal Magen's short book "What Is Your Dream?" recaptures some of that fun with rhyming language that's nonsensical or ludicrous in context, but similar in sound to real words.The kids in the book all dream of what they'll be when they grow up. Some dreams are about real professions, while others are about imaginary gibberish. It's the kind of silliness that kids love, and along with the humorous illustrations, it's a fun read. In the end, the author encourages youngsters to have their own dreams and to think about their future.