I Can Dream: A Treasury of Bestselling Authors Create Modern-Day Fairy Tales — Jonathan Diaz

This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen bestselling middle-grade authors -- including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie and Jennifer A. Nielsen -- who have created original short stories, modern-day fairy tales, based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: They have very big hopes and dreams and they are all cancer patients. Each short story is prefaced by a brief bio of the child and is accompanied by photographs of the child, fully costumed and digitally inserted into a background -- a baker, a dancer, a superhero, a dragon fighter, a sports star, a princess and more -- that makes them the hero of their own modern day fairy tale story written by one of their favorite authors.