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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The Skin of Dreams is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques L’Aum{circ}one, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lively, loving serenade full of animals and rhyme that celebrates the joy of playing together. Humans become chickens and roosters, frogs and dogs, snails, whales and many more animals under the sun as children explore their creativity and uniqueness and caregivers play alongside. With messages of inclusiveness and unconditional acceptance, the rollicking, rhyming couplets depicting a day filled with dress-up and make-believe are a humorous...
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Read, play, and DANCE on the pages of this interactive and definitely out-of-the box picture book from the creator of Press Here! New from the New York Times bestselling creator Hervé Tullet! Harnessing his love of dance, the passion of his illustrations, and the great big format of this book, Hervé invites you to a very special dance: your hand becoming the dancer and the book the dance floor. Starting with a gentle glide, growing in complexity...
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Like a laugh-out-loud spin on Thumbelina, this whimsical, beautifully illustrated picture book stars an adventurous little girl who shrinks down to the size of a bug and takes a tour of the swamp on a dragonfly's back. Have you ever wanted to ride a dragonfly? Well, there’s one problem… You’re too big! But if you follow these simple steps, you'll be sure to have a fantastic journey: Step 1: Put a rose petal in your pocket at sunrise, which...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A clear explanation of what the imagination is and the opportunities that come from the use of it. What is imagination? Most of us think of it as playing pretend or what happens when we’re dreaming, but imagination takes us to worlds and galaxies beyond that. Imagination helps us travel between time, space, and reality. It gives us the power to dream up the world in our own vision and encourages us to think of not just what is, but what could...
6) Jump for Joy
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Kid seeks dog. Dog seeks kid. In this charming and imaginative tale of friendship, picture book readers will delight in what it means to have a furry best friend. For as long as she can remember, Joy has wanted a dog. It doesn’t matter what kind: big, little, spotted, curly. She wants one so fiercely, she makes dogs out of snow, seashells, or whatever’s at hand! However, none of the dogs Joy makes are quite what she yearns for. The seashell...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Watson is having trouble sleeping when he notices a mysterious light coming from under his covers which leads him down a path through a forest and onto a magical adventure.
Ages 4 to 8.
"A boy struggling to fall asleep peeks beneath his covers to find a world filled with nighttime adventures under a starry, tented sky. Watson is having trouble sleeping. He lies awake at night, doing his best not to think about the lurking, creeping things that...
8) Cloud babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eoin Colfer, New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, pens a warm, empathy-building story based on illustrator Chris Judge’s family’s experience with childhood illness. Six-year-old Erin’s favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mom and dad—everything from fluffy foxes and polar bears to little rabbits. Even when Erin falls very ill and has to spend a long time in the hospital, she...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Our fearless tiny hero conquers another common childhood fear—swim lessons!—in this epic follow-up to his origin story, Tiny Barbarian. After admiring the new movie poster for Bob the Barbarian Conquers The Kraken, Tiny wants to battle a kraken in the choppy seas, too! There’s just one problem: Tiny doesn’t know how to swim! Off to the community pool for Tiny’s first swim lesson! With a swim cap stretched over his signature barbarian...
10) Monster-Scared
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"There's a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster but a quiet one. It's probably making a kid trap. Each night, it grows in the dark. Everyone knows monsters feed on darkness"--
For anyone who’s ever been monster-scared comes a lighthearted book about the dark. About what lives in the attic. And about discovering that monsters are―perhaps―mostly scary in your imagination. There’s a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster...
11) João by a thread
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"As Jo�ao tucks under a lovingly woven quilt, he asks himself: So it's just me now? He curls up, getting cozy in bed, and soon the world of his dreams unspools on the page. The blanket in his bed unravels into deep rivers, lakes, valleys, reservoirs, mountain ranges, fishing nets full of tadpoles and gaping holes, until what's left is just one long thread. When he feels alone and scared in the dark, Jo�ao "sews words like patchwork" into a new...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From international rock star Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle Jonas comes an imagination-focused picture book about how to overcome the rainy-day doldrums and find the fun in every situation. Bella loves the beach. She loves the flip and flop slap of her feet on the sand. She loves the crash, crash, crash of the ocean waves. And she loves the gentle shush, shush of the beach umbrella in the breeze. But a rainstorm hits and Bella’s perfect...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ellie Mae's mind swirls with ideas when her teacher asks, What do you want to be when you grow up?
""What do you want to be when you grow up?" At the teacher's all-important question, Ellie Mae's mind swirls with ideas. An astronaut or a chef? Better yet, why not an astronaut-chef? Since the moon is made of cheese, her galactic grilled-cheese sandwiches could be known throughout the universe! Or . . . she could be a 'ballerina-painter,' creating...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Incorporated
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As a little cat comes home from a day's adventuring, her little girl imagines all the things the cat may have seen and experienced during her outing.
"An adorable, inquisitive tale which encourages readers to explore their emotions and free their imaginations as they are invited into a little cat’s world As a little cat rushes in from a day’s adventuring, her owner asks her where she’s been and what she’s seen. Was she happy? Was she brave?...
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
By clapping their hands and twinkling their fingers, the reader decorates the Christmas tree in this interactive story.
"Hooray! It’s time to decorate the tree! Can you help? Clap to turn on the lights. Twinkle your fingers to add some ornaments. Shake to add some more. (But not too hard; you don’t want to break one!) This full-color interactive picture book allows little helpers to trim the tree again and again, all season long."--
16) Go-go guys
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Rowboat Watkins’s vivid comic-style take on a universal dilemma―bedtime! New from the beeping brain of Rowboat Watkins, award-wining author of much-loved children’s picture books including Rude Cakes, Mabel: A Mermaid Fable, and Big Bunny. This comic-style adventure follows the Go-Go Guys from beep-beep-bed to the Moon and beep-beep-back again. So . . . what do Go-Go Guys do best? Well . . . GO-GO-GO! They never rest. Because...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, PrincetonUniversity professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Blue Dot runs late for dinner, his fellow colors overhear something that causes them to speculate wildly on what might have happened.
"When Blue Dot is running late, his whereabouts get caught up in a hilarious chain of miscommunication. “Okay! Blue Dot is on his way.” “What? Blue Dot has joined the ballet?” “Wait no—he said he’d be here soon.” “Why did Blue Dot go to the moon?” Blue Dot is late for dinner, and...
19) The drama llama
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"One day a WORRY comes to stay and simply will not go away! "Whenever he was worried or whenever there was drama, Alex Allen's brain produced . . . A living breathing Llama!" Alex Allen, like lots of children, sometimes worried about things - like dancing badly or getting an answer wrong in class. But unlike lots of children, every time he worries a real-life llama appears! And the more Alex worries, the bigger Llama grows... which starts getting...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?
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