Imagine a Day Book

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.

Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz - Children's Literature

On each double page, with illustration facing text, we are encouraged to imagine a different day, a day when the most mystical, amazing, incredible things are possible—like "dive down through branches or swim up to the sun." A day "when you forget how to fall," or "when you don't need wings to soar," or "when your sand castle can withstand even the highest waves." In this companion to the authors' Imagine a Night, each brief request offers an opportunity for Gonsalves to use Thomson's brief text to create a surreal world which young people deal with in a matter-of-fact way. They ride bikes through piles of leaves which are also the tops of trees from a scene below; they join together to form a trestle for an approaching train. Naturalistic, detailed acrylic paintings draw us into this visual magic of transformations. The large pages offer ample room for all the details, while the facing white pages with their bits of text add to the emotional impact. 2005, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, Ages 4 to 10.