Stories about imagination

In these storybooks a box becomes a rocket, a backyard becomes a jungle, and a bath becomes an ocean. The stories are about pretend play, and they capture the way young children slide between the real world and the imagined one without warning. With plenty of picture support, they make good first books for a child just beginning to read alone and comfortable read-alouds for three- and four-year-olds. They work as a kick-off for dramatic play or a writing prompt, and reading one often ends with the child wandering off to stage their own version. Every story is free to read, and remixing one puts your child inside the pretend world.

10 stories