Daydreaming
A Picture Book
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
A young boy named Henry embarks on a normal, average day at school, but his daily activities are hopelessly disrupted by his overactive imagination. Breakfast turns into a fantastical adventure through his cereal box, and his classroom becomes a whirlwind of flying books. Along the way, an off-screen voice scolds him to "Stop daydreaming!"
In a fun and unexpected twist, it turns out that Henry and his adventures were part of a young girl's imagination all along.
Exuberant and innovative, this debut picture book by comic strip creator Mark Tatulli is a celebration of imagination and the power of daydreaming.
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Henry is a daydreamer. As he gets ready for school, he imagines that he's fallen into a box of cereal, made friends with the bear pictured on the box, and frolicked in a land of sugary wonders. It's the same story at recess: Henry, dressed in cowboy gear, pretends he's riding a grasshopper into the sky. Then it's revealed that both he and the bear are actually toys from cereal boxes playthings for an imaginative girl named Emma Rose. Adults may have to explain to incredulous children that, yes, cereal boxes really did once come with toys inside, but that's not the most problematic aspect of Tatulli's (the Desmond Pucket series) first picture book. He puts his experience as a comic strip artist to impressive use, with pages of smartly framed action that needs no narrator or dialogue. But when it's revealed that the offstage voice hectoring Henry belongs to Emma Rose, and Henry's expressive face and wiry body freeze into the gaze and pose of a molded toy, the carefree premise suddenly takes on a Twilight Zone creepiness. Ages 3 6.
