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"Clinton Gregory has a secret. Actually, he has at least 7 big secrets from just last week. Like on Monday when he wrestled a dragon, or on Sunday, when he made paper hats for a ship full of pirates and then rocketed to the moon and back. And the fun doesn't end there...This whimsical picture book reveals a week in the life of Clinton Gregory, a boy with a very active imagination who will appeal to daydreamers everywhere! In the tradition of ""Noises At Night"" and ""Ruthie Bon Bair"", Bruce Whatley's bold and energetic illustrations are filled with warmth and fantasy.Whatley believes the art for this book is his best ever!"

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In tribute to unfettered imaginations everywhere, Whatley introduces a smiling lad with an inner life so filled with adventure that even a day of nothing much at all brings handmade paper hats for a ship full of pirates, a rocket voyage to the Moon and a trip around the world on plates of spaghetti. Everywhere he goes, Clinton travels with a large entourage that includes a dragon named Gordon, a pair of ruddy-nosed giants, a seahorse, a triceratops in a pink tutu and others - all rendered with massive, finely detailed solidity in the eye-filling art, and all (except the spaghetti) visible, in variously reduced forms, scattered about his room in the opening spread. Children whose own rooms are self-contained universes will feel perfectly at home in Clinton's; for storytime flights, pair this with, Simon Puttock's Earth to Stella! (2006), one of Harold's forays with his purple crayon. (Picture book. 6-8) (Kirkus Reviews)

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Bruce Whatley is the author and illustrator of many best-selling children's picture books including The Night Before Christmas. He lives in Australia.

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