Imagine A Day

Sarah L Thompson (author)

Rob Gonsalves (illustrations)

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster, 2005

ISBN: 0689852193 

Genres: fantasy, picture book

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Awards, Canada Council for the Arts.

This beautiful, surreal book is designed to stimulate both the reader's imagination and their perspectives about human relationships - with one another, with the world around them, with everything they can see, feel and touch and some of the things they can't. "Imagine a day... when grace and daring are all we need to build a bridge."

The surreal illustrations are rendered incredibly realistically in acrylics; so realistically that their surrealist nature tends to creep up on the reader, often stimulating sudden exclamations of surprise, delight and wonder as they see the illusion - or allusion. The poetic text has been designed to lead the reader gently into these wonderfully imagined paintings and give them ‘food for thought' as they explore the artist's world. An outstanding picture book.

Highly recommended.