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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 trees and turn oatmeal into cake. Sometimes she can even disappear! Being a fairy is very useful--even if your spells don't always come...
4) 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.
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Planet Kindergarten volume 1
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A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.
7) A library
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In this ode to libraries where everyone who loves stories is welcome, a world-renowned poet captures the magic of these places for imagination, exploration and escape.
8) Nora's ark
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When the weatherman predicts rain, young Nora builds an ark just like Noah's--almost.
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Awesome Man volume 1
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A young superhero describes his awesome powers, which he then demonstrates as various foes arrive on the scene.
10) School rules!
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When Pinkalicious brings her imaginary unicorn, Goldie, to school and teaches him the rules, he helps her and the other students to become better friends.
11) It's a tiger!
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A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
14) Words with wings
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Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
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Dory Fantasmagory volume 3
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"When Dory's best friend learns to read before she does, Dory retreats into her wild imagination and finds herself in the middle of one of the babyish books she is struggling to read where she encounters imaginary friends and enemies"--
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Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 2
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Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.
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Planet Kindergarten volume 2
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A young child imagines kindergarten as a mission in space, with his fellow kindernauts, and this is their one hundredth day.
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