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Peter Newell, author/illustrator of the “Slant Book” (1910), one of my all-time favorite children’s books, apparently also created a surreal comic strip in 1906-1907 called “The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead”. Like “Little Nemo in Slumberland” it draws us into the wacky dreamworld of a girl named Polly. This strange little girl drifts off to sleep in the middle of doing the most commonplace activities.

Peter Newell, author/illustrator of the “Slant Book” (1910), one of my all-time favorite children’s books, apparently also created a surreal comic strip in 1906-1907 called “The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead”. Like “Little Nemo in Slumberland” it draws us into the wacky dreamworld of a girl named Polly. This strange little girl drifts off to sleep in the middle of doing the most commonplace activities.