Customer Reviews

If... (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum)

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I read this book and immediately usd it as a story prompt for my first grade class. They first drew their own If.. pictures then wrote about them.

I read this book to my daughter's kindergarten class and they loved it. The pictures are wonderful, but the best part is its imagination. It encourages kids to think in new ways and inspires creative thinking (and hopefully an interest in the arts). I enjoyed it and heartily recommend it.

The best illustrations of any book I've seen in a 30 year teaching career. Got tired of retrieving it from other teachers and ordered five for my best teacher friends and one for kids to have their hands on in the classroom. Children absolutely LOVE this book! I first saw it when a student brought it to school to show me. Back then it had to be ordered from the museum~~and now it's on Amazon!

This attractive, well-written picture book holds younger children from 3 on up spellbound with its surprising and funny new ways of re-imagining reality in nature (not to mention the nature of reality). Imagine, for example, a caterpillar coming out of a toothpaste tube instead of toothpaste, or if the moon were ... square! Does wonders for sparking childrens' fantasies. Would make a thoughtful teacher thank-you gift or classroom library donation.

I witnessed a teacher using If... with third graders. They were so eager to create their own If... segments. Even children who are skeptical of reading and writing were able to enjoy the follow up activity. Sculptor Sarah Perry sure knows how to spark a child's imagination. No elementary classroom should be without If...

This fabulous book puts an intriguing spin on the everyday, providing the beginnings of imaginative journeys. Whether read straight through or flipped through casually, whether read by adults or children, whether for read for fun or as a writing stimulus in a classroom, I give this book my highest recommendation!

Sarah Perry creates a fabulous feast of image and words. By blending thought provoking questions with visually rich images, she allows both right and left brained indivduals to partake in a sensory delight. The book, though appropriately geared to the developing imagination of the youth, allows readers from 8 to 100 to answer her questions. It's as if books could read your thoughts....

Every once and a while something or someone sends you reeling, reeling into your mind and imagination, into the infinite possibilities of being...............

I read this to my kids at a bookstore in a museum and I thought it was cute, but my children (3.5 and 4.5) were in LOVE with it and STILL ARE. It has really got their wheels turning in their head and has peaked their imaginations and curiosity and now we play "If" games (instigated by THEM) all the time. GREAT gift, GREAT book. HIGHLY recommend!!!!

This book is so beautifully illustrated and the ideas it presents are really fun. We got it as a baby shower gift and it immediately became a favorite of my husband and mine. Now my 2-year old loves to pour over the illustrations and giggles at the silly ideas. It's a book that I know she will keep into her adulthood.