The imagination is a powerful thing. Indeed, if people did not have an imagination many books, pieces of music, and art would never be created. Today's picture book celebrates the imagination in a unique and exciting way. Readers of all ages may find themsleves wishing that they too could create a city, through their imagination, that is like the one that they visit in this title.
Imagine A City
Imagine A City
Elise Hurst
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Random House, 2016, 978-1-101-93457-9
Imagine if you can what it would be like to get on a
train, a train that is going to take you to the city so that you have a special
outing. It is an ordinary train that stops at an ordinary train platform. You
get on board and off you go. It is not long before a waiter comes around and
serves you a luscious tea. You sit on the comfortable seats sipping hot tea and
eating delicious little cakes and treats. Perhaps you notice that one of the
passengers in the car has rather long ears, and paws instead of hands. Or
perhaps you don’t.
When you get to
the city ordinariness disappears. Here humans and animals live side by side,
and there are many strange and wondrous things going on. The pictures in a gallery
that you visit refuse to be contained by their frames. Here the buses are fish
instead of machines and they swim through the sky above the streets. Here the
stories in books, like the pictures at the gallery, will not lie down quietly
on the paper. Instead they hop off the pages and sometimes you get quite a
shock!
When you stop
for a bite in a little restaurant you find that the tables and chairs are
little trees. In addition to the now no longer unusual assortment of animals,
there are gargoyles partaking of drinks and snacks. It is important to remember that when you can
imagine a city there is no accounting for what might happen.
In this visually
stunning picture book, the author takes us on a journey full of wonderful impossibles
and glorious imaginings. A minimal, lyrical text accompanies the art, and
together they capture the sense of a place where adventures lie around every
corner and where “The World is your teacher.”
This celebration
of the imagination will delight readers of all ages, many of whom will wish
that they could jump into the pages and visit the land that lies therein.
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