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Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet. Caldecott Honor artist and bestselling author David Shannon's warm and funny new picture book introduces Alice, a mischievous little girl with a magic wand and a "No, David!" nose for trouble. Alice the Fairy uses her magic wand to change frogs into princes and dads into horses. She can also make leaves fall from...
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Yes, there's something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake -- it's nonsense! Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like "the cow jumped over the moon" and "the dish ran away with the spoon." This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity...
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Violet Mackerel books volume 1
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When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
8) I am yoga
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As a young girl practices various standard yoga poses, she imagines herself as a tree touching the sky, a playful dog, a warrior, and more while relaxing and seeing how she fits into the world.
9) Let's play!
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A lively yellow dot leads the reader through a journey through color, shape, and a child's imagination.
10) Shape shift
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"Round, curvy, pointy, or straight-shapes are all around us. With illustrations that highlight shapes in all their forms, this book reinforces the identification of circles, squares, crescents, diamonds, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, and ovals while encouraging kids to pair shapes together to make new forms"--
11) Mix it up!
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"Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page." --
12) Big friends
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Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.
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Ladybug Girl volume 6
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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[2013]
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Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.
14) My garden
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
16) The whisper
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
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A New York Times Bestseller! Isabella:Girl on the Go is the perfect book choice when looking for on the go books for kids, kids books on geography, or empowering stories for little girls and boys!
Isabella's and her dreams are turning an ordinary backyard into an extraordinary adventure! A must-read for lovers of the Isabella series: My Name is not Isabella, Isabella: Star of the Story, Isabella: Girl in Charge, and My Name
...18) Babymouse
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Random House
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2005-2016.
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An imaginative mouse learns life lessons while living her life.
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Schwartz & Wade Books
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2016.
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A little girl who has made her own dollhouse from a box and her vivid imagination has trouble playing with her friend Sophie's perfect dolls and dollhouse, but when Sophie comes to visit she is afraid that her handiwork will not be good enough for Sophie.
20) Willow
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In art class, neatness, conformity, and imitation are encouraged, but when Willow brings imagination and creativity to her projects, even straight-laced Miss Hawthorn is influenced.
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