Intellectual Dreamer Gifts

I think therefore...

Academics at the Beach: Prof. Johnson attempts to see beyond the horizon.

Brain Power

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

"Young Frankenstein"

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."

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

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

Pipe Dream.

'I'm in my Blue period.'

"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

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

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

Here be dragons.

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

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

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

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

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Ideas Ahead of their Time

Real Life/Surreal Life

"Where the wild things were."

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

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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

'OOO, I've thought of a new one! Two squiggles and a backwards G!'

"One day, I'll be the first woman!"

'All good things must come to an end.'