An Animal Cracker Tale

By Dan Hayashi

This is a tale about how our childhood dreams can be crucial to developing our personal sense of creativeness. How imaginary friends expand our minds, which is the basis of invention, problem solving and all creative activities.
Despite his father's fears, after seeing his son's imagination bring animal crackers to life in his mind, dad throws away his boy's animal crackers. Despite this, the boy continues pretending to interview alive miniature animals to invent stories from an animal's point of view. He shares animal crackers with other children, who carry-on their adventures after biting into them and they become real in their minds. Daydreaming, these adventures occupy two children's minds in innocent play. These magnificently wild animals bring these kid's spirits and minds alive. With their mother's active support, the children's hearts prosper with joy, after she remembers her own childhood, inspired by her fairy godmother.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Hayashi
• Release date: Mar 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215443866

Dan Hayashi

After a Batchelor's Degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in psychology from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA in 1968, (now Calif. Inst. of the Arts, Sylmar, CA) I was drafted and spent 2 years in the military. A few years after returning home, my wife & I opened a computer graphics company in Lawndale, CA. We thrived. Though always interested in writing, my literary interests were put aside by business demands, until retiring in 1996. In 2010, I was serendipitously commissioned to illustrate a children's card game & two kid's books by a new company. This re-ignited my desires to combine my writing & caricature skills to publish children's books of my own. It was the perfect culmination of timing & the synergy of friendship. My new friend reinvigorated my dreams of authorship. I wrote & illustrated my first book in 2012, then another in December, 2013. Two more were published Dec, 2014 & June, 2015. I just completed my best so far, August 2015 is a preorder eBook. I have now authored & illustrated 5 animal tales & Illustrated a fellow author's 2 kiddy books & designed his children's card game art. I promise many more children's objects of entertainment & animal stories..

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