Strategic Dreamer Gifts

'By the time we came up with a mission statement, we were out of business.'

"What if we don't change anything at all...and something magical just happens."

"We don't believe in miracles. We rely on them."

"Kazakov is employing the rare 'Mr. Castle and Horsey go on an adventure' defense."

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

Joey discovers the difference between coffee beans and jelly beans.

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."

Pipe Dream.

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

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

'The good news is we're projecting a profit. The bad news is none of us will be alive then.'

'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

Lemonade Inc.

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

Here be dragons.

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

'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."

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

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

Real Life/Surreal Life

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

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

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

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"I want to make it before I hit thirty."

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

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

'Ben, true sportsmanship is a state of mind, and I'm proud of you.'