Reflective Dreamer Mugs

Men already on desert islands willingly floating out to sea

"You can see my childhood here."

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.

Pipe Dream.

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

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

Bookworm Sleepover

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

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

Here be dragons.

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

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

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

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

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

Real Life/Surreal Life

"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..."

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

"I never dreamed we'd migrate."

Giant using sheep as cotton buds

'Some days I just feel so stuck in a rut that I wish I'd never been invented!'

"Where the wild things were."

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

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

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

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

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'I still want to be a cowboy.'

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