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"It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow abundant, the bird weaves a garland for the girl to wear...

Amidst their playtime pretending to be superheroes, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear get to be real life heroes when a young neighbor falls off his bike.

As a child approaches the diving board at a pool, she dreams about all the amazing things she might do when she is older.

In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.

As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.

Invites the reader to imagine what it would be like to build and use a jetpack at home, at school, and even on a long voyage or two.

"Sparky the special figment agent delivers all the mail in the very orderly Fantastic Bureau of Imagination, until one day when all the unshared ideas in the world overflow and threaten to topple the whole building"--

Dad takes Jack and Anna for a hike. They spend a great day outdoors. The next day, the kids want to go for another hike, but Dad is too busy. Instead, brother and sister resort to playing in the yard. But when they lie on their stomachs, they see the grass looks like meadows and the bushes look like trees. Full color.

"Two balls of clay have a great time shaping themselves into various animals and objects until their sculptor comes back and discovers the mess they've made of her work"--

A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.