California Dreams collects dozens of poems written by Sandol Stoddard over the course of a writing career that spanned 25 published books, including best-selling children's fiction, religious anthologies, translations, non-fiction works for adults and articles published in scholarly journals. From her landmark non-fiction treatise The Hospice Movement , which launched the concept of hospice care in America, to popular children's books such as I Like You , The Thinking Book , and Turtle Time , to the prize-winning The Doubleday Children's Bible , her works have been read by millions in English and in foreign translations worldwide. This posthumous volume is the first published collection of her poetry.