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Candlewick Press
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern...
2) I got it!
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In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
3) One time
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Imaginative, eleven-year-old Gina, her mysterious new neighbor, Antonio, and their classmates are inspired by an unusual young teacher to see who they are and envision who they are meant to become.
4) Brave Molly
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In this story without words, Molly must overcome her fear of the shadowy monsters that only she can see in order to return a lost book, and so make a new friend.
8) I am yoga
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
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As a young girl practices various standard yoga poses, she imagines herself as a tree touching the sky, a playful dog, a warrior, and more while relaxing and seeing how she fits into the world.
9) Be a maker
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to make everything from a tower to a charitable donation, alone or with neighbors.
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Violet Mackerel books volume 1
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
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When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--
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POW!
Pub. Date
[2015]
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This is the only picture book on the market to reassure kids that their parents can handle a date night. In this book, two children brew up increasingly wild adventures that befall mom and dad in an evening. From runaway hot air balloons to vampire movie ushers, the kids reveal that when they are nervous, their imaginative prowess kicks into high gear. For the fortunate babysitter, The Night Our Parents Went Out is the perfect way to lighten the atmosphere...
13) Hopscotch
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination to make magic out of a scary situation. Giant rabbits with sharp teeth circle the old motel where they are staying. Ophelia can also hear crow-witches cackling from the trees. And when it's time to go to her new school, she encounters an ogre who blocks the road with his giant ogre laughs. But most frightening of all is when Ophelia is left in her new class and realizes that everyone...
14) Goldilicious
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Pinkalicious volume 3
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A little girl and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess.
16) Walk with me
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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Ladybug Girl volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"A girl and her dog are back in this follow-up to the bestselling The Most Magnificent Thing. Usually, the girl is an idea machine -- sometimes her brain is so full of ideas that her hands can't keep up. But today feels different. She seems to have everything she needs to get to work ... but she doesn't know what to make! She searches high and low for an idea. She and her dog go for a walk, they brainstorm, they research, they dig through the entire...