Ten-year-old Peter Fortune has a knack for winding up in the most unlikely of situations: terrorized and held at bay by a doll in his sister's collection, climbing inside the skin of William, the family cat, or disappearing altogether with the help of vanishing cream, just to name a few. Peter's vivid imagination is at the bottom of it all in this unusual novel that invites readers to suspend disbelief and explore the wonder of it all. Anthony Browne's full-page black-and-white drawings provide an intriguing balance to the highly colorful workings of Peter's mind while capturing the mood - foreboding, warm, frightening - of each of Peter's adventures. (Ages 10-12)

A classic from one of our greatest storytellers underlines Doubleday Canada’s commitment to YA fiction, in a handsome new edition that will appeal to young readers of all ages.

In these seven exquisite, interlinked episodes, grown-up Peter Fortune reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his childhood.

Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the family cat and a cranky infant, battles a very bad doll who comes to life to seek revenge, and discovers in a kitchen drawer some vanishing cream that actually makes people vanish. In the final story, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside a grown-up’s body, and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The Daydreamer is a celebration of imagination and fantasy.