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Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, goes to the playground and makes new friends, including Bumblebee Boy.
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Description
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! Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like "the cow jumped over the moon" and "the dish ran away with the spoon." This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity...
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
7) My garden
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
8) Shape shift
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Round, curvy, pointy, or straight-shapes are all around us. With illustrations that highlight shapes in all their forms, this book reinforces the identification of circles, squares, crescents, diamonds, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, and ovals while encouraging kids to pair shapes together to make new forms"--
9) Mix it up!
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"Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page." --
10) Let's play!
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Description
A lively yellow dot leads the reader through a journey through color, shape, and a child's imagination.
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.
12) Prince Fly Guy
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 15
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Description
Buzz is writing a fairy tale for homework, and Fly Guy naturally assumes the role of a handsome prince, who fends off a giant and rescues a beautiful princess.
14) The whisper
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
15) The wrong book
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
In this giggle-inducing story, the narrator is WRONG about everything, including that bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout Ding Dong! before putting out a fire, until the characters within the book set him straight.
16) Babymouse
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005-2016.
Description
An imaginative mouse learns life lessons while living her life.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Victoria is unhappily married to an ambitious and controlling lawyer consumed with his career. Burdened with overbearing in-laws, a boring dead-end job she can't seem to leave, and a best friend who doesn't seem to understand her, Victoria finds solace from the daily grind in her beloved books and the stories she makes up in her head. One day, in a favorite café, she notices an attractive man reading the same talked-about bestselling novel that...
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Although no one else can see it, Harry is very pleased to have a horse in his room. Harry keeps a horse in his room. A trusty horse only he can see. But then his parents take him to the country to see "real" horses. Horses that are free to run, kick, and nibble. Now Harry must decide: Does his horse need to be free, too?
20) It's a tiger!
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Description
A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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