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| Imagine a Day (Byron Preiss Book) | 
| Author: Sarah L. Thomson
Creator: Rob Gonsalves
Publisher: Atheneum
Category: Book
List Price: $18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 36119
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 11.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0689852193
EAN: 9780689852190
ASIN: 0689852193
Publication Date: January 25, 2005
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Product Description
Imagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary...a day when anything is possible.Imagine a Day is the companion book to the critically acclaimed Imagine a Night, which School Library Journal declared "a fascinating foray into the imagination." Renowned Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves once again stretches the limits of visual exploration with his breathtaking paintings and encourages parents and children alike to look beyond the limits of the everyday world and imagine.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
Beautiful, inspiring May 31, 2008
I love this book! This is my kind of art: creative and colorful, realistic and impossible. I was expecting a little more from the writings inspired from the pictures, but because they are so short, they are the perfect length for a 2 and 3 year old. I also have imagine a night, and I read them to my kids at bedtime.
amazing! April 30, 2008
all i can say is... well read it. it's mostly pictures, so little to no effort on the reader, but it's worth it. there's a phrase on every page which enhances and ties together a collection of amazingly well done pictures. the pictures are somewhat surreal, like those pictures where there is a face and it can either be an old woman or a young woman, have we all been exposed to these? but optical illusions i guess. they are brightly coloured and imaginative and give the reader a lot to look at. the phrases don't exactly make a story out of the pictures, but there is a logical order to the presentation that can be almost thought provoking. it's a great book. to be flipped through by both young and old.
Exceptional images and evocative poetry April 27, 2008
It is rare to find such a perfect combination of poetry and picture. Rob Gonsalves, a Canadian artist whose art evokes Escher and David Wiesner, pairs up with Sarah Thomson to create imaginative worlds of astonishing beauty and optimism. Gonsalves' painting of children walking across narrow wooden planks from skyscrapers to a picket fence in the garden are encapsulated in Thomson's "Imagine a day/...when you forget/ how to fall." And the last painting sums up the entire book: a library in which the books on the shelves are doors that open onto other worlds: "Imagine a day.../when a book swings open/ on silent hinges/ and a place you're never seen before/ welcomes you home." Truly a book for all ages.
Even better than the night book! March 25, 2008
Rob Gonsalves is a marvelous illustrator who humanizes the spacial ambiguities of the plane made famous by Escher. This book and its predecessor, Imagine a Night, are full of pictures that stimulate the imagination. They also celebrate cooperation and the enjoyment of simple activities - building a sand castle, playing on a swing, riding a bike.
mesmerizing illustrations February 13, 2007
I read this before Thomson's "Imagine a Night". They are both spectacularly illustrated. It isn't a story as much as a guide for imagination. I find myself lost in the pictures and my daughter loves to see where reality and fantasy mix in the pages.
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