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Jason Batt is a writer, teacher, designer, artist, creator of communities, listener, and explorer.
Jason Batt serves as Creative and Editorial manager for 100 Year Starship. Jason creates visual engagement for 100 Year Starship programs and activities. He is also the managing editor of the 100YSS Symposium Proceedings.
Jason is a member of Mensa and serves on the Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation with their Religious/Spirituality Board and the Space Settlement Board. He has previously served on the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Board. He was a panel speaker at the 2011 DARPA / NASA 100 Year Starship Symposium, a speaker at the 2012 and 2013 100 Year Starship Symposiums, and host for the Sci Fi Author Night at the 2013 Symposium.
J. Daniel Batt is a writer that has penned the children’s fantasy book Keaghan in Dreamside and the designer of many more, including the ALA Schneider-Family Book Award nominee, My Brother Fights Pirates (Sort of) and The Human Race to the Future published by the Lifeboat Foundation. He served as a judge for the Lifeboat to the Stars award for science fiction literature, which was presented at the Campbell Conference in June 2013.
Jason and his wife Karen have three children: two boys, Tristan and Keaghan, and one girl, Aisleyn. He earned his B.A. in Language Arts at Chadron State College in 1998.
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Reviewed by Alysha Allen for Readers' Favorite
Who said that a home is composed of four walls and a roof? Those who have never ventured past the three dream corners that are within each of our homes, leading to the Dreamside where adventures begin and dreams morph into reality. A seemingly normal young boy, Keaghan, stumbles accidentally into the Dreamside of his own home. Throughout the course of the series, Keaghan must travel to bizarre and magical realms to save his family and millions of other families around the world from falling prey to a home where only detached aloofness exists and love has no place. Will Keaghan be able to muster the courage to defend Dreamside from also falling apart in order to save his own?
Although not a young child anymore, I do believe that not only those who are more than ten or twenty years our junior will be heartily entertained, but those whose charge it is to read to these youngsters will appreciate this whimsical narrative. J. Daniel Batt’s Keaghan in the Tales of Dreamside Omnibus ranks amongst The Brave Little Toaster and The Boxtrolls, written as it is with such verve and liveliness that its images vividly imprint themselves upon the reader’s imagination, as any intriguing children’s animation film. The characters that Keaghan befriends and meets on his expeditions through Dreamside are penned with dazzling texture: amiable Knitters composed of crayons, sticks, and discarded toys; beastly Sloars that feed off family members’ animosities toward one another; and punk-rock tattooed Skroints are some, along with many other fantastical creatures that will delight and inspire children's imaginations.
Similarly, on their journey with Keaghan through the Dreamside within his house, Batt encourages his young readers with the meaningful and important lesson to move forward ceaselessly with courage and curiosity to face all of the wondrous possibilities that await us on the morrow. Furthermore, Keaghan’s adventures teach the value of dreams, both sleeping and awake, and the power of the imagination; the lesson to never let our past mistakes and failures limit what we can do or shape who we are capable of being.
