Children's Day & Summer Book Review - Imagine

One of the things we want to help the children we love with as they grow up, is how they might imagine or see their own future. In Imagine, a beautiful book from Candlewick Press written by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrated by Lauren Castillo, we are able to do exactly this!

Favorite Features -

• The illustrations are filled with details and color and show the "lifeline" of the author - the illustrations absolutely add to the beauty of this book and it's message.
• I love the call to "imagine" and dream of what a future may look like.

Candlewick Press says, "Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and let tadpoles swim across his hands in a creek. He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town. He went to school and taught himself to read and write English and filled paper pads with rivers of ink as he walked down the street after school. And when he grew up, he became the United States Poet Laureate and read his poems aloud on the steps of the Library of Congress. If he could do all of these things . . . what could you do? With this illustrated poem of endless possibility, Juan Felipe Herrera and Lauren Castillo breathe magic into the hopes and dreams of readers searching for their place in life."

I appreciate the opportunity Imagine gives us to share with the children we love how life looks different for each of us and we are all able to "imagine". The author grew up in a different country, immigrated, dreamed, imagined, learned, tried new things, and eventually became the Poet Laureate! Just imagine what the children you love might imagine and do in their lives! You will find  Imagine at this link.