It is a dream
It is an adventure.
It is a trip home.

Jack and Mickey are little boys living on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, with their family.

During a naptime, unable to sleep, Jack and Mickey climb to their house’s attic, where they meet Whalebone, the ghost of an old sailor. When he learns that Jack has been adopted from Cambodia, he escorts the boys on a trip, a special naptime trip, to Cambodia of old, when Whalebone himself was young and vigorous.

It is the Khmer New Year, a time of great celebration, and the boys have a splendid time, filled with exicing experiences. They travel by oxcart through a countryside of fragrant fields, and share meals of tasty and very different foods. Whalebone takes them to the big city, for the annual festival to watch the thrilling oxcart races.

Whale bone makes sure to have the boys back in their Nantucket beds by the end of naptime, but both boys remember their adventure, and Jack knows about the beautiful country he comes from.

It is a dream.
It is an adventure.
It is a book about little boys, alike and different, and how they come to be part of the same family, from worlds apart.