Childhood Dream Maker Gifts

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Young Frank Lloyd Wright

I should be a writer when I grow up...

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Don't worry, dear. You'll grow."

"My political platform focuses on more ice cream and more frisbee chasing, with less chores and fewer baths."

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

'I'm in my Blue period.'

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

Here be dragons.

'I love my new easylife artist's easel.'

Tree house.

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

"Holy cow, Kenny, look at the size of that thing! It's huge, I tell ya'! And the teeth! The teeth!"

Real Life/Surreal Life

"Where the wild things were."

Ricky discovers only cartoon cats can fly.

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

' 'Cat in the Window'...chapter 14...'

'The housing market may be flat, but pillow-fort construction is blooming!'

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

Girl to boy: 'If flowers could fly, they'd be butterflies.'

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Children's Dreams on Christmas Eve

'Nope. I didn't see any dogfish.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"Young man, go to your room and stay there until your cerebral cortex matures."

'All good things must come to an end.'