In the early forties when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.

A mother's words help a little boy imagine the sights and sounds of the seashore, even though he has never seen the ocean.

While running from the "goose" in a game, the boy imagines himself running as fast as a fox, crossing the finishing line first, and being carried by a gust of wind.

Told in rhyme, a little boy, tucked into his bed, thinks of all the wonderful and ordinary things he will see and do tomorrow.

When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.

Illustrations present such imaginative possibilities as worms with wheels, caterpillar toothpaste, and whales in outer space.

"Children pretend to be many different animals as they do various yoga poses"--

Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between make believe and real life.

While playing with a blue boat in the bathtub, a young girl imagines she is on an ocean voyage.

A dazzling new novel by the author of Galatea 2.2 and Gain In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join these two remote places? Only the shared imagination,...