New edition (with illustrations) in easy-read sections.
Farley is afraid to go to sleep at night. He is almost five years old and suffers from awful nightmares. By day he wheezes and coughs and worries. He has a puffer and a toy penguin to help but the bad dreams still come … until a Mevali hound arrives and tells him about Nomoni, the land of No More Nightmares. This is a place somewhere between dreaming and waking where the Mevalis spin sweet dreams and sew joy pillows for themselves and the world below where Farley lives. ….
One day the queen of the Mevalis, Shai-Dora, sends two gifts— her M hounds and the Gemma Garden— into the world to help all the unhappy, sick or frightened children who have nightmares. Things have become much worse since Skilverino and some bad Mevali hounds started a war in Nomoni and were thrown down into the world. Now the faithful Mevali hounds must find the children and lead them into the beautiful Gemma Garden where nothing bad or hurtful can enter. Skilverino needs to capture Mevali hounds to steal back the joy and beauty he has lost and leave them cold, thin and hungry, but they are too fast for him. Farley learns how to trust them as he goes to sleep and to follow them across the MH2 Bridge and through the Twisted Silk Gates into a garden of safety and sweet dreams.
This is the first in a series of inter-active books for parents and carers to share with children who regularly experience nightmares or fears at bedtime. The stories are written to be read to young children but also to encourage older ones to love reading for themselves. All age groups are invited to express their imagination by drawing, painting or creating their own stories around the themes of Nomoni.
The particular focus in this introductory story is on children who suffer from attacks of asthma, allergies or other breathing difficulties. As the struggles of the day drift into the night hours and bad dreams disrupt sleep the Mevalis from the land of Nomoni are there to help.
This gentle bedtime therapy of imagining entering a safe and secure place helped the author as a young child to cope with the traumas of severe asthmatic attacks. Later, using the remembered technique, she was able to give the same relief to a small boy experiencing life-threatening and frightening anaphylactic episodes, often followed by disturbed nights of fearful dreams. Together they created and explored the healing world of Nomoni.
