Washoe County Library System

"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--

A routine shopping trip becomes a grand adventure in the eyes of a little girl.

This book explores whimsical ways of doing a host of different things.

A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything.

Depicts a child's imaginative vision of the world while getting dressed, eating breakfast, and choosing a path to follow.

Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.

Using kindness, soft blankets, and chocolate milk, a brave child tames ferocious dragons and settles them in a clover field for a nap.

Pirates Blackbeard Johnson and his brothers, Eyepatch Sue, and others sail over to Peg Leg Jones' for a happily chaotic pirate jamboree--until the S.S. Clean Your Room (otherwise known as Mrs. Jones) arrives and playtime is definitely over.

When two very different boys meet they are terrified until they find some common ground.

Going to bed early after spending a busy day at the beach with her family, Lucy wakes up in the middle of the night to find that her imagination leads her to see things differently in the dark.