The great thing about having an imagination is that it allows us to make things up, and sometimes the things we make up are weird, magical, wonderful, or some combination of all of these elements. In today's picture book the author takes us on a fanciful journey into the imagination, and the places she takes us really are special.
Imagine a Day
Imagine a Day
Sarah L. Thomson
Paintings by Rob Gonsalves
Picture Book
Ages 5 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2005, 0-689-85219-3
The imagination can take anything from the everyday world and turn it in
to something wonderful, something exciting. On a cloudy grey day the
imagination can imagine a way to bring back a blue sky by filling the heavens
with thousands of blue balloons. With the imagination a walk on the fence can
turn into a daring walk between high rise buildings. Our imagination can make
it possible for us to lay water down in slabs, much in the same way that one
would tile a floor; and the coppery leaves of fall can be turned into a road
that can be ridden on, high above the ground.
In
this wonderful book Sarah Thomson takes our imaginations on a journey. As we
explore the pages we celebrate the imagination and all the wonderful things
that it can do. It can make the dreary interesting, the commonplace remarkable,
it can add spice to one’s life, and it can give one peace. Rob Gonsalves has taken the simple text and
has created paintings which make the mind stretch and wonder. The art is
beautiful and intriguing, and it challenges one to look at the world though
eyes that can see not just what is really there but what could be there.
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