Episode 7

Episode 7: Imagination
Your imagination is an endless supply of mental pictures of things you create. How do you use your imagination every day?

Featured Books
Read Book: Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, 2006
Little Bunny is NOT playing with a box. Check out all the things Bunny can imagine the box to be!

New Book: They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel, 2016
Take a walk through the world with an ordinary cat and see what a cat looks like to different creatures.
Extension Activities

1. Use your imagination to make a boring chore, task, or activity exciting.
2. Create a drawing, story, or even a toy based on something you’ve imagined.
3. Visit an art gallery and use your imagination to decide what a picture is supposed to be or a story about the image.

Guest Host Spotlight


J. Andersen likes to write books, but doing so means slaying the dragons of procrastination while trudging through piles of laundry to make it to the computer. This small town, stay at home mom and former English teacher may be a world builder by day and a superhero by night, but that doesn't mean she can ignore making dinner or driving the kids to music lessons. She also works as the Director of Author Services for Brimstone Fiction and is the Author Care Manager for Burnett Young Books. You can find her work at http://www.jandersenbooks.com/

Book Recommendations
Board Books:

1. Who’s Hatching by Jennifer Sattler
2. Look! By Edward Manceau
3. Cowy Cow by Chris Raschka

Picture Books:

1. Beautiful Oops! By Barnie Saltzberg
2. What Do You Do With an Idea? By Kobe Yamada
3. Idea Jar by Adam Lehrhaupt

Chapter Books:

1. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. Small Things by Mel Tregonning

YA Books:

1. Destiny by Design series by J. Andersen
2. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
3. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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