The illustrations make this picture book especially appealing as we follow a young boy with a colander on his head who spends his day imaging battles with dragons using the sunflower his mother gave him for a sword. Imagination takes flight in bright and cheerful illustrations which fill the page with whimsical images. Suddenly the boy encounters a read dragon who mistakes the sunflower for a gift and gives the boy a ride on his back. By the end, other knights join our hero. They each put down their sword, pick up a sunflower gift for a dragon and hop on its back for a ride into the blue sky.