A boy imagines what it would be like if he had such things as duck feet, a whale spout, and an elephant's trunk.

Just before she drifts off to sleep, a little girl imagines that there are all sorts of fascinating things outside her bedroom door.

"Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there-- a swing creaking, a dog barking-- and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet's world, she grows convinced that something...

While a little boy plays with his toy trucks, he imagines driving various real trucks such as a wrecker, a fire engine, and a farm pickup.

After James tells a scary story, Thomas the tank engine imagines there is a horrible, engine-eating monster coming after him.

A young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam, " "tough as a rhino, " and "gentle as a lamb."

Publisher Annotation: The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting-though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits....

An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.

Triangles, circles, squares. To most of us, these are just simple shapes. But in the imaginations of Lulu and Max these shapes take on exciting new meanings.

A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.