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Imaginative Jack describes the kind of house he would build--one with a racetrack, a flying room, and a gigantic slide.

When a boy finds a cape he knows it must mean he has a superpower, but dad is far too distracted to play, until the boy discovers he does have a superpower--a super powerful imagination that is far too mighty for dad to resist.

Nina loves to visit her secret jungle place, bringing stories to read to the wild animals, especially the story about a place where humans once lived, but now has returned to nature.

After asking the reader to think of something spectacular, the narrator sets out to prove his ability to read minds by describing a preposterous situation and characters.

Pleading with her dad to push the swing higher and higher, a little girl wonders just how high she has gone and compares her journey to fantastical feats, like venturing higher than a mountain or shooting straight into space. On board pages. "The sky’s no limit in a witty picture book about a child on a swing and the wonders of the imagination. One child. One swing. An obliging dad. The inevitable plea to go "Higher! Higher!" Add Leslie Patricelli’s...

A boy hears a noise in the night and imagines what it could be.

When Millie cannot afford the very expensive hat that she wants to buy, the owner of the shop comes up with an imaginative solution to her problem.

After the lights go out in her house, Maya's mother distracts her from her fear of the dark with a retelling of the legend of the banyan tree.

"Zia imagines what might happen if the hole in her pocket became big enough to fall right through"--

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.