Italian Dreamer Gifts

All Roads Lead To Rome

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

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

US Immigration and Naturalization Service: If you're yearning to breath free...Get Out.

Late night teddy reading

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

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"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.

Night-time halo

'Oh for heaven's sake, you're a cow. Just eat grass and be happy.'

What else is there to wish for?

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

"I never dreamed we'd migrate."

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

Giant using sheep as cotton buds

"Me, as soon as I'm old enough, I'm out of here! I'll go and join my older brother: he's a beach bum in San Diego, California..."

'A depressing thought just came over me. Now we'll have to go out and get a job!'

"Mmmm! Bears hibernate in the winter. Cats can hibernate anytime we want!"

"Where the wild things were."

Real Life/Surreal Life

Gondolier skimming up leaves in pool.

''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.

"You think you're a monster because you have poor self image."

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

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

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"Ambitions... to open an office on Mars. Kennedy Space Center."

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

'I still want to be a cowboy.'