Childhood Dream Maker Gifts

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Young Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

"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

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

Here be dragons.

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

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

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

Ricky discovers only cartoon cats can fly.

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

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

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

"Where the wild things were."

Tree house.

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

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

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

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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

Children's Dreams on Christmas Eve

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

"Have your parents sign this waiver concerning violations of personal space. . . then you guys can play tag."

'All good things must come to an end.'