A Glass of Dreams - Child Book

A 5-year-old child, Fred drinks milk in the living room. Suddenly his glass fell and the milk spread to air. We see his face shocked. The reason of the shock is not a mistake he made, but the shapes he sees. He tries to understand what is created by the milk flying. He eliminates the options because of fun reasons. At the moment when the milk spills to the ground, his dad waits with another glass to fill his son’s dreams in it. The story ends with the same glass of milk full of Fred’s imagination.

Children's vivid imagination inspires the child book project I've created. I aimed to highlight how children can construct different worlds in their minds while observing the real world, and how their imagination fuels their creativity. Instead of delivering a specific message, I focused on creating nonsensical literature. I strived to establish "creative" causality to challenge ideas and falsify certain assumptions. The inspiration for this approach came from Voltaire's "Candide", in which Dr. Pangloss uses irrational logic to explain the world, such as claiming that noses were made to carry spectacles, and that's why we have glasses.

—It is clear, said he, that things cannot be otherwise than they are, for since everything is made to serve an end, everything necessarily serves the best end. Observe: noses were made to support spectacles, hence we have spectacles. Candide, Voltaire

I believe that this illogical reasoning is similar to how children interpret their surroundings. Therefore, I crafted my story from the perspective of a naive child who uses his imagination to make sense of undefined shapes and questions his interpretations using his logic. I intentionally used minimal words and relied on the illustrations to convey the narrative.