Dallas Clayton is an illustrator who wrote a book for his son about the idea of dreaming big and never giving up. Entitled An Awesome book, he put it online, and as Clayton writes, “my whole life changed forever.”
The book starts with these 4 pages, “ There are places in the world where people do not dream.. of rocket –powered unicorns… of magic watermelon boats… and musical baboons. …” The illustrations have a hand-made whimsical look, and the book goes on to talk about those who forget to dream, those who give up, and that you can dream whatever you want.
A simple message, but when I checked out the book online, it hit home with me .
How often do I think of ideas that might be impossible? Am I too quick to discard what could be a good idea? A car that runs on jellybans? Thinking of feasibility too early in coming up with ideas?
Clayton started a foundation to give away one book for every copy of An Awesome Book that he sold. In an effort to promote children’s literacy by encouraging kids to dream ,the books are delivered directly and distributed to schools, hospitals, libraries, camps and shelters both domestically and worldwide.
Today he writes children’s books for a living and is frequently on book tours, traveling the world reading to kids.
Need some inspiration to dream? Clayton has a website and blog where his new books and illustration work can be seen and read.
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Images by Dallas Clayton
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