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Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. Since the seventeenth century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as 'make believe'. Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science. Imagination has...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
12) My garden
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Just go to bed
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A small animal uses his imagination to avoid going to bed, but finally has to admit that he is sleepy.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The little girl wants a pet, but her mother says "We'll see". So the girl tries a rock that she names Fluffy as a pet. Next a glove, a candy wrapper, and a balloon are pets. With imagination, anything can be a pet. But what will be the best pet of all.
16) Over the ocean
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Someday
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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...
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