…And the award for Best Children’s Book of 2008 goes to Dallas Clayton! Like the poetic contemplations that furnish his flabbergastingly beautiful blog, Clayton’s words in An Awesome Book access startling truths of the human heart, devastating the reader with their honesty while they lay down the framework for a hopeful new world. An Awesome Book is propaganda for a society that values imagination— a rallying cry championing the power of dreaming. It’s directed at children, but it’s perhaps even more applicable for adults who’ve forgotten what it means to dream big. Plus, it has rocket-powered unicorns and ice cream cones wearing sunglasses and rocket-powered unicorns!

Check out the whole book online, and then purchase a copy for the imagination-starved child (or adult) in your life. If enough people read An Awesome Book, it might become the anti-Mein Kampf. It’ll start a revolution of the raddest kind.