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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
Buy New: $9.65
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 39918
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Oversized Children's Hardcover w/ DJ. NEW NEW NEW; never read; never sold. DJ is New. In sealed plastic protection. 2005. Oversized Children's Hardcover w/ DJ.
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Another fun book by Rob Gonsalves October 31, 2008
This is the second book by Rob that I have collected and like the first, it is fun and creative.
 Forget the text, look at the pictures September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book consists of a wonderful collection of beautiful and creative drawings by Robert Gonslaves interspersed with poetic musings by Sarah Thompson. While most books listing an author and illustrator are mainly text, in this case the writing is superfluous at best, and annoying at worst. The sense of wonder inspired by the pictures needs no commentary, especially of the vacuous and meaningless stock thoughts written here. Don't get me wrong, the book is well worth the purchase price and can be looked at and enjoyed time and time again. Just next time, Gonslaves should strike out on his own with the art and perhaps some technical explanations of how he did what he did.
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.
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