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Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
9) The whisper
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
10) I'm a frog!
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Piggie introduces his reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.
12) The wrong book
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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.
13) What if
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A child who likes to draw and write stories imagines what would happen if there were no pencils, paper, or other tools for being creative.
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Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"--
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"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"--
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Four-year-old Babymouse wants to replace the cookies her mom prepared for Santa with a special batch of her own pink-frosted cupcakes. But when her mother goes to check on baby brother, Babymouse hears a roar from the other room and must do what she can to defend the cupcakes from her fiery foe. Will there be any cupcakes left for Santa?
19) Sun flower lion
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Invites the reader to see the sun, bright as a flower, a flower on a hill that looks like a lion, a lion that dreams of flowers as big as the sun, and more.
20) If I was a horse
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"A child imagines what life would be like as a horse"--