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Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Language
English
Description
From a two-time Kate Greenaway Medal winner comes an adventure that follows a young emperor on a beautiful and bizarre journey in which birds are trees, dinner comes before lunch, the extraordinary is ordinary, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Full color.
A young boy journeys in search of a dragon, through a strange land where he finds wardrobe monsters, pillow hills, and umbrella trees.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 740
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Long regarded as an elusive and mysterious capacity of the human mind, imagination has been both criticized and revered by philosophers. In Imagination: A Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei explores imagination as a cognitive power crucial to human flourishing. Gosetti-Ferencei explains the philosophy of imagination while drawing on aesthetics and literary theory, exploring its importance in human experience from art to science and...
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.
10) The magic boots
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
William has a pair of magic cowboy boots that take him wherever he wants to go, but when he outgrows them, he makes a surprising discovery.
12) Roxaboxen
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A girl and her dog are back in this follow-up to the bestselling The Most Magnificent Thing. Usually, the girl is an idea machine -- sometimes her brain is so full of ideas that her hands can't keep up. But today feels different. She seems to have everything she needs to get to work ... but she doesn't know what to make! She searches high and low for an idea. She and her dog go for a walk, they brainstorm, they research, they dig through the entire...
14) Just go to bed
Author
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
A small animal uses his imagination to avoid going to bed, but finally has to admit that he is sleepy.
15) Willow
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In art class, neatness, conformity, and imitation are encouraged, but when Willow brings imagination and creativity to her projects, even straight-laced Miss Hawthorn is influenced.
16) Alice the fairy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet. Caldecott Honor artist and bestselling author David Shannon's warm and funny new picture book introduces Alice, a mischievous little girl with a magic wand and a "No, David!" nose for trouble. Alice the Fairy uses her magic wand to change frogs into princes and dads into horses. She can also make leaves fall from...
17) Someday
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A young girl contrasts the exciting things she might someday do, like digging for dinosaur bones and swimming with dolphins, with her present-day activities of finding loose change in the sofa cushions and feeding her goldfish.
18) Real imagination
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Most of us decide what we want to be as children, and for many of us that changed over time, or even day of the week. Some of that change was based solely on us, and other times that change was based on how those around us felt about our dreams. Real Imagination encourages children to believe in their wildest dreams and reassures them that it's okay to be whatever they want to be.
20) Goodnight Opus
Author
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
When his grandmother reads his favorite book for the 210th time, Opus the penguin departs from the text and gets carried away on a fantastical nighttime journey.
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