imagination

Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini has a vivid imagination when it comes to cleaning his disastrously messy room, but eventually even he decides that it is just too dirty.

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

Harold uses his fantastic purple crayon to draw himself some wonderful adventures.

Little Critter uses his imagination to avoid going to bed, but finally has to admit that he is sleepy.

A child imagines how things will be when he is eight, like his big brother.

Young friends Frankie and Sal, believing they have "done it all," decide to do nothing for a while, but Frankie has a little trouble with the concept and it is not long before the boys realize there is no way to do nothing.

A ladybug invites the reader to play a game of "let's pretend.".

After dressing up as fire fighters, building a fire truck out of a cardboard box, and extinguishing imaginary fires on the playground, Mrs. Iverson's students are surprised by the arrival of a real fire engine with real fire fighters on board.

Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini's vivid imagination does not help him advance in rank with the rest of his Possum Scout troop, but winning the Pine Run 3000 model car race would give him the points he needs.

Jenny lets her imagination run away with her when she decides to enter a photography contest and starts taking candid pictures around her neighborhood.