The Dreams of Uncle Al

About the Book

Tatiana Solodilova The illustration for The Dreams of Uncle Al has worked with writer Ol Yurgan for many years. She lives in Russia, in the ancient Russian city of Vladimir.

About the Author

The book’s author, psychologist Ol Yurgan, builds a story of the heroes’ adventures on the real potential of a person to merge dreams and reality. This come particularly easily to children and emotional old men, who see events in sleep with those happening in waking life, as Uncle Al and his nephew Tony do. The characters of this story—frogs, a cricket, a turtle, a dog and cat, a musk-rat—aren’t much different from humans, except that they very much depend on them. All their interests interweave in a tight knot of intrigue and dangerous adventures, making for captivating detective fairy tale.