Post by richardvasseur on Nov 3, 2019 9:41:21 GMT
Book title: Dreamerboy: Everyone Should Have a Dream
Created and written by: John Mitchell
Artwork by: Marketa Ivanisova
Fictional children’s story
36 pages
Reviewed by Allen Klingelhoets
Jazma Online
Back cover note: When six year old Murphy’s imagination takes him on an adventure to save his friends from the grasp of the evil nemesis Ripple, he gets himself into all sorts of trouble when his Dreamerboy antics spill over into the real world, the classroom.
Allen notes:
Modern time story.
Setting last day of school.
Main character: six year old Murphy. He seemed like typical little boy, happy, fun, and curious. But Murphy had a secret. He never got sleepy. As the school year was nearing an end, he just didn’t sleep during nap time anymore. To Murphy, it was as if he was given a superpower, though he could not think of any superheroes who had the power of staying awake. And how did he get this power?
He had never been bitten by a radioactive spider or been hit with gamma radiation, and according to Murphy everyone knows that’s how you get superpowers.
Murphy could not tell his parents about his newly discovered gift.
At bedtime, he pretended to go to sleep. But later, he would read books by flashlight, play video games with no sound, or have action figure battles quietly. He could do whatever he liked, as long as he did not wake his Mom and Dad. And having no sleep meant he could have more time thinking about things he liked, not what he was told to think about in school.
But there was a part that was bad. If you can’t sleep, you can’t dream. And Murphy loved to dream! So he came up with another idea, to come up with the best dreams ever, whenever he wanted to.
His imagination was attempted while taking bus to school in the morning. He dreamed that he was flying on the back of a giant eagle. He would dream of being on back of eagle as it swooped between futuristic skyscraper buildings.
The dreams started to interfere with his classroom school activities. His teacher Miss Rupple became concerned about Murphy’s confused imagination. He was sometimes taken by imagination to area outside futuristic city by eagle. He thought about his evil nemesis, Ripple who wanted to capture Murphy and force him to write the alphabet over and over again until his hand hurt.
Ripple was man.
Ms. Rupple was woman. Ripple was probably another version of his teacher but one from his imagination. This was also alluded to in story.
The story was full of conflicts.
Imagination and real world occurred. How would Murphy save class kids from his imagination world?
How was Murphy’s Dad’s television remote involved? I don’t want to give away whole story.
The book had wonderful art by artist Marketa Ivanisova. One page of art to go with John Mitchell text which was broken up into 35 pages. This was one singular story. Most of story happened on last day of school before summer vacation. Will Murphy be able to again sleep at night? All will be revealed in closing pages of “Dreamerboy Everyone Should Have a Dream".
I got my copy through library.
Cost was not on book. I think though easy to order through
Dreamerboybooks.com
John Mitchell also produced nonfiction documentary called "Cheeseheads".
Allen Klingelhoets
