"Jane Yolen poetically reminds young readers that a simple box can be a child's most imaginative plaything as artist Chris Sheban illustrates its myriad and magical uses"--

Preferring to be a dog instead of a boy despite his parents' efforts to convince him otherwise, Harry barks, bites, and rolls around until he is sent to an academy for dogs, where he struggles to follow the school's dog-training methods.

On a trip to the zoo with his friend Ettie, Danny draws pictures of some animals, who then lead the two on an imaginary adventure to Africa and back.

Pirates Blackbeard Johnson and his brothers, Eyepatch Sue, and others sail over to Peg Leg Jones' for a happily chaotic pirate jamboree--until the S.S. Clean Your Room (otherwise known as Mrs. Jones) arrives and playtime is definitely over.

Relates in verse some of the unusual thinks you can think if only you try. A mad outpouring of made-up words, and intriguing ideas. Dr. Seuss celebrates thinking and imagination in his characteristic style of verses and illustrations.

Improbable, ridiculous remedies accumulate when there is gum stuck in your hair.

Returning to school after being in the hospital for a while, six-year-old Erin, whose favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds, finds things much different until she comes to see that by sharing her experience, she can find happiness again in just being herself.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a little boy through a day of imaginative play with various toys, followed by a quiet time of books and crayons as bedtime nears.

"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--