Sam and Dave are sure they will discover something exciting if they just keep digging their hole.

"A girl transforms a cafe into a train by making train noises with words"--

When Maya and her family visit the beach, she goes on a magical underwater adventure filled with silly sea creatures, games with new friends, and mermaids of all shapes and sizes.

Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a dancing, juggling, bouncing man who appears once every five hundred years.

A ladybug invites the reader to play a game of "let's pretend."

"Every Sunday night a young girl and her grandmother go on an imaginary shopping trip using play money and the advertisements in the newspaper as a guide for their 'purchases.'"--

A puppy named Abby assumes a different identity for each day of the week until Sunday, when she is just herself.

"Ollie doesn't see things the same way everybody else does (and he certainly doesn't see things the same way his older sister does). Instead of cars in traffic, Ollie sees a circus parade. Instead of cows grazing in a field, Ollie sees deadly bison with sharp horns and hooves. And at school, instead of letters on the board, Ollie sees birds with pointy beaks, and fish with flapping tails in the big blue sea. Ollie knows he doesn't need glasses, because...

Two children embark on a journey to answer the question, "Why do we need books?" and find they are essential to observe, to imagine, to invent, and to understand one another.

A class of kindergarteners sets out bravely in search of a lion, going through mud, long grass, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the lion forces a headlong retreat.