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100 Books About Imaginary Worlds
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Let your imagination run wild! Developing an imagination fosters creativity, problem solving, and innovation. These books will encourage imaginary play and let your child explore new and exciting worlds.
infants & toddlers (0 - 2 years)
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
Fire Truck by Peter Sis
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
Goodnight Little Dragons by Leigh Ann Tyson
How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace
My Lucky Little Dragon by Joyce Wan
Pajama Time by Sandra Boynton
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
Peek-A-Boo! by Allan Ahlberg
Possum Magic by Mem Fox
The Goodnight Train by June Sobel
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Walt Disney's Peter Pan by RH Disney
preschool (3 - 4 years)
10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey
Chalk by Bill Thompson
Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Days With Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons and Other Creatures That Never Were by Eric Carle
Float by Daniel Miyares
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall Ets
Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley
Hi, Pizza Man! by Virginia Walter
Humpty Dumpty by Daniel Kirk
Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
Ladybug Girl by David Soman
Library Lion by Michelle Knudson
Light Up the Night by Jean Reidy
Little Miss Spider by David Kirk
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis
Perfect Square by Michael Hall
Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman
Red Sled by Lita Judge
Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer by Rick Bunsen
Sector 7 by David Wiesner
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
Snowmen at Work by Caralyn Buehner
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble
The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
The Rabbit and the Turtle by Eric Carle
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
Truck by Donald Crews
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Wave by Suzy Lee
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
early school (5 - 6 years)
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Arthur Meets the President by Marc Brown
Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way! by Steve Voake
Flora and Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories from My Life by Eric Carle
Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury by Arnold Lobel
Green Wilma, Frog in Space by Tedd Arnold
Hello, Rock by Roger Bradfield
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill
Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster by Michelle Nelson-Schmidt
Journey by Aaron Becker
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Officer Buckle & Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
Pirate Girl by Cornelia Funke
Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz
Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton
Rumpelstiltskin by Brothers Grimm and Paul O. Zelinsky
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
The Adventures of Polo by Regis Faller
The Day Louis Got Eaten by John Fardell
The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang
The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by John Scieszka
The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant by Jean De Brunhoff
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Zoom by Istvan Banyai
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