Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame . A sequel to the 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story "The Reluctant Dragon".Dream Days received strong approval from the literary critics of the day. In one modern estimation, both books "paint a convincingly unsentimental picture of childhood, with the adults in these sketches totally out of touch with the real concerns of the young people around them, including their griefs and rages."