Clifford and Emily Elizabeth are learning all about Mars. The Red Planet sounds just like the red rocks down by the Birdwell Island beach. Emily Elizabeth and her firends decide to go on a space race to see who can get there first. But when Clifford gets stuck in the mud, will Emily Elizabeth lose the race?

When Leo's mother announces there will be a surprise at dinner, Leo and his brother are desperate to find out what it is, and their imaginations run wild.

In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.

"A girl and her dog are back in this follow-up to the bestselling The Most Magnificent Thing. Usually, the girl is an idea machine -- sometimes her brain is so full of ideas that her hands can't keep up. But today feels different. She seems to have everything she needs to get to work ... but she doesn't know what to make! She searches high and low for an idea. She and her dog go for a walk, they brainstorm, they research, they dig through the entire...

Shau-yu is simply on her way to buy eggs for dinner's fried rice, yet she takes the reader on a journey filled with adventure and imaginings.

"A boy turns a cardboard box into a car and imagines what it would be like to take his mama for a drive all around town"--

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.

Max is bored until he goes outside and finds an old blue hat, which fires his imagination and leads him to a new friend.

Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life.

An imaginative young girl enjoys pretending she is a knight, a princess, a ninja, a ballerina, a pirate, and anything else she wants to be, including herself.