The Power of Childhood Dreams - 2nd Edition is a book of childhood desires for fame and riches when older. The story involves an old man who, having fulfilled his own childhood dreams, tells Liam, Mary, and John of his journey through life and what his positive thoughts were, what he believed, and the reason he achieved his desire to become a doctor. The children, having listened to the old man's story, over the next few days followed his advice to see if their individual childhood dreams would come true.