When the other kids make fun of Louie and call his father "the junkman," his dad explains that the so-called junk he loves "can take you right out of this world" with a little imagination. So Louie builds the spaceship Imagination I and blasts off into his own space odyssey...
Louie is being teased by the kids because his pop is a junkman. His father's rejoinder is that with junk and a little imagination, a person can go 'right out of this world.' Spurred by this thought, Louie and his friend build a spacecraft fueled entirely by imagination.--Booklist...