Weslandia

What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the summer? Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley decides to spend his summer vacation. Wesley is not an ordinary boy: "He alone in his town disliked pizza and soda, alarming his mother and the school nurse. He found professional football stupid. He'd refused to shave half his head, the hairstyle worn by all the other boys, despite his father's bribe of five dollars." It all starts (the civilization, that is) when Wesley overturns a plot of ground in his yard to see what new and unknown seeds might blow into it. Curiously, just one kind of plant grows--an unusual, flowering, fruit-bearing plant that tastes of "peach, strawberry, pumpkin pie, and flavors he had no name for." Soon, Wesley is literally reaping the fruits of his labors--using the fruit rind to make a cup for the juice he squeezes, barbecuing the root tubers, and weaving the bark into a hat to keep off the sun.

選這本書作為『夢想』的閱讀原因：

威斯利勇於夢想，他認識、肯定自己，並不斷自我充實、預備且付諸行動，沒有因別人的嘲笑而退卻；他種下自己的植物，視它們為寶貝，且不仰賴外力，自給自足，更建立自己的文明，一手打造出威斯利王國。他從原本被排擠，到後來變成大家跟隨的對象，他示範了有創見的夢想，能讓更多的人一起參與；文創產業就是這樣的例子，從開始建立到延伸出一系列的產品，所有的創意都來自面對生活的需要，以與別人不一樣的視野，打開夢想的大門。