We don’t normally associate the need for quiet with children. Surprise. In the life that overprogrammed children live today, a moment’s privacy and peace is often longed for.

Time to daydream, time to think their own thoughts, time to simply be quiet. Wood captures the yearning for just such a private place to be quiet and think. "You could look in the desert, where Old Man Saguaro reaches for the sky, and far-off thunderheads bloom like sky-flowers over the mesas. ... And you can be a Pony Express rider galloping through the Old West."

Melded with Andreasen’s realistic yet hauntingly otherworldly oil paintings, this story comes highly recommended not only as a read-aloud but also as a book supporting children in their developing comprehension of themselves as unique individuals.

From Publishers Weekly-
“In muted hues and soft edges, the artist conveys far-ranging settings the boy…envisions himself also as prehistoric caveman, swashbuckling treasure-finder, spaceman, etc. These scenarios will hold children rapt until the concluding thought…that people hold within themselves "the very best quiet place of all."