Winterdream, Volume 1: The Ascent: Wanda Winnette Tick Tales Presents: Book I of Wanda's Whimsical Waltzing Hardcover – December 15, 2025

Winterdream is a tender, dream-woven winter holiday story from the world of Wanda Winnette Tick — a gentle, magical, quiet-hearted book designed to become a family tradition for years to come.When Wanda drifts into sleep on a cold winter night, a mysterious trunk awakens beside her chair, and the dreaming world opens in ten unfolding chapters. Each dream belongs to someone different — a child in a hospital bed, a weary traveler, a musician, a lost girl, a leader carrying the weight of a world, and more — all of them guided by Wanda and her faithful companions: Brandon, Mogwai, Adore, Sammy, Delilah Rose, and Rudey. Together, these dreamwalkers, our beloved Porchlight Pals, help each soul see something they could not see before: courage, hope, memory, healing, clarity, or the strength to choose a gentler way forward.Winterdream is told in eleven luminous chapters (including a powerful epilogue) and is meant to be read over ten consecutive nights, beginning ten days before your family’s own winter holiday. The final chapter, the Eleventh Night, is read on the holiday itself — a soft, reflective close to the season’s magic.Between each chapter, readers will find a pair of beautifully designed pages:✨ one Directive Page, inviting a small winter activity families can do together,✨ and one Reflection Page, revisited each year to gently record growth, memories, hopes, and the many tiny ways a winter season can shape us.Across the years, these pages slowly become a keepsake — a living record of wintertime moments, childhood heights, sparkling hopes, shifting dreams, and the traditions that take root when stories are read together year after year.With its gentle magical realism and warm, quiet storytelling, Winterdream is perfect for:• families and caregivers• children who love cozy winter tales• adults who appreciate reflective, tradition-building books• holiday reading circles• bedtime rituals• those seeking a calmer, kinder winter story unlike anything elseBlending wonder, winter, and heart, Winterdream invites readers to slow down, breathe deeply, and step into a world where dreams illuminate what waking life sometimes forgets. It is the kind of story that sits glowing on a mantel, resurfaces every December, and waits patiently for its readers to gather around once more.A tradition waiting to happen.A winter tale to return to every year.A soft place to rest your heart when the season turns cold.Welcome to Winterdream.The porchlight is on. Read more