(3) K-3 Illustrated by Rob Gonsalves. "Imagine a place... / ...where your mind opens wider / than any walls around you." Thomson's imagery-heavy text asks readers to allow their imaginations to take them to wondrous places. Gonsalves's meticulous acrylic paintings, merging surreal Escher-inspired object transformations with Van Allsburg-like visual non sequiturs, are fascinating. This is a book to get lost in and to dream with.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Rob Gonsalves. Superrealistic paintings present a world that, like an Escher image, deceives the eye. For example, children climb the limbs of a tree that is actually the tree's reflection in a lake's surface ("Imagine a day...when you can dive / down through branches / or swim up / to the sun"). Though the verses are bland, the paintings are intriguing.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Rob Gonsalves. "Imagine a night..." begins each line of whimsical text paired with one of fourteen elegantly surreal paintings. Many images show one scene gradually transforming into another: for example, a quilt's green-and-brown squares morph into patches of farmland so that the children who were jumping on the beds are now flying over the farms. This unusual book will make an excellent story starter.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke