Marianne Dreams
by Catherine Storrliterary work· published 1958
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Marianne Dreams is a children's fantasy novel by Catherine Storr. It was illustrated with drawings by Marjorie-Ann Watts and published by Faber and Faber in 1958. The first paperback edition, from Puffin Books in 1964, is catalogued by the Library of Congress as revised. Marianne is a young girl who is bedridden with a long-term illness. She draws a picture to fill her time and finds that she spends her dreams within the picture she has drawn. As time goes by, she becomes sicker, and starts to spend more and more time trapped within her fantasy world, and her attempts to make things better by adding to and crossing out things in the drawing make things progressively worse. Her only companion in her dreamworld is a boy called Mark, who is also a long-term invalid in the real world.
Adaptations (2)
Marianne Dreams has been adapted 2 times, across miniseries and film, from 1972 to 1988. The most recent is Paperhouse (1988).
Escape Into Night1972 · miniseries · 25 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5Escape Into Night is a six-part 1972 British children's fantasy horror television serial produced by Associated Television for ITV. Bedridden young Marianne doodles an imaginary house in her notepad — and soon the line between dreams and reality blurs.
