Washoe County Library System

Whimsical thoughts, bringing colorful and happy images to the reader. Imagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary...a day when anything...

When Poppy's imagination gets completely out of control, she has to come up with a quick solution to clean up the mess. Poppy has the most extraordinary imagination. When she is sent upstairs to tidy her room, she just can't help imagining and suddenly ... her imagination literally comes alive. Soon her room is jam-packed with all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures. There's a problem, though - the mammoth puts his foot through the floor and the...

After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to the island where the wild things are. A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

Duck's imagination gets the best of him when he asks his critter companions for help escaping a mysterious pursuer.

"Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leapsfrom the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Unearthing...

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.

A young girl gazes out over the horizon, and wonders what lands lie beyond the ocean, and what the people are like who live in those lands.

Magnificent splashes of fluorescent orange make this new picture book by international legend AlemagnaNabout a little boy who discovers natureNvisually powerful, timely, and thought-provoking. Full color. Sent outside by her mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when her handheld game falls into the pond before she encounters giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken her to the sensory aspects of nature. Gender of protagonist...

Eager to have a star of his own, a boy devises imaginative ways of catching one.