The Things That I Could Be focuses on letting kids explore their imaginations, so they can discover what they might like to do when they grow up. This story is an easy-to-read rhyming book with the ability to inspire the next generation to dream big.

Author Clint J. Hagans hopes that children can come away from reading this book with a newfound sense that reading can be fun. He wrote this book so that young black boys can see themselves in roles that expand past sports and entertainment.