Samuel’s Magic Pillow

Rights sold: Swedish, Danish

Samuel’s Magic Pillow is a humorous tale in the style of Roald Dahl. It tells about 9-year-old Samuel Soapbubble, whose mother thinks he is the laziest and least-gifted child in the whole world. This all changes when he sticks a book beneath his quite ordinary pillow one night: the next morning, Samuel knows the book’s contents by heart. The boy becomes a celebrity: he wins every trivia contest, gets first place on a TV game show, teaches a class on French language and cuisine, gives academic lectures, and sells his autographs. His mother’s bank account swells rapidly, but all Samuel dreams about now is a soft new feather pillow and a life of peace and quiet.