Customer Reviews

Imagine a Day (Byron Preiss Book)

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The absolutely tremendous illustrations make this book interesting to all ages...especially adults. We keep it on the coffee table and company of all ages pick it up to get swept away by the imaginative book.

Brightly colored, surreal illustrations by Rob Gonsalves are lovely and interesting for adults and children and definately evoke emotions. Small children may find the perspectives a bit edgy.

The text will definatly evoke more for adults than children but does encourage readers of all ages to use their imaginations. This book may be dificult for beginning readers to decipher on their own but would be very nice as a read-together book.

This is a companion book to Imagine a Night by the same author and illustrator.

This book is one of the greatest books I've read and reviewed this year!

In its poetic simplistic sense, each verse brings new meaning and clear thought to a basic 3-4 word line. Along with the illustrations, done in an almost salvadore dali method, the pictures are created amongst themselves. A tall bridge slowly becomes people standing on each other helping build the bridge. A man studying a map becomes children diving off into a part of the map and flying over beautiful land. My descritions don't do justice to the beautiful artwork expressed inside these pages. Superb artwork by Rob Gonsalves!

Taken from the book on one of my favorite pages...

imagine a day.....
when roots drink up rivers,
twigs tangle in clouds,
and a tree is a ladder
between earth and air.

This is a must read for children and will also be enjoyed by adults.

If you liked 'Imagine a Night,' you'll like 'Imagine a Day.' I like them both. The artwork is well displayed (although I hate when art is dissected into a two-page layout and wish the 'powers that be' would just make the book BIGGER to accomodate a one artwork per page layout . . . but that's my personal peeve and most readers don't seem to care or notice.)
Gentle and wonderful introduction to surreal art. Would recommend it for children or adults. It makes one wish for one of those oversize comprehensive and complete art books solely on Rob Gonsalves.

I love this book! This is my kind of art: creative and colorful, realistic and impossible. I was expecting a little more from the writings inspired from the pictures, but because they are so short, they are the perfect length for a 2 and 3 year old. I also have imagine a night, and I read them to my kids at bedtime.

It is difficult to find sparse text picture books that work well for school-aged ELLs. This is one of those books. I like teaching the complex sentence pattern that is repeated throughout. Once students have learned it through copying, analyzing, substituting, and expanding it, they easily are launched to writing their own.

"Imagine a Day" with text by Sarah L. Thomson and paintings by Rob Gonsalves is a perfect partnership. Intricate paintings of everyday scenes made mystical are matched with Thomson's simple and beautiful prose.

Each written page begins with "Imagine a day" followed by actions that could be taken to free the imagination, strengthen the spirit, or change the world.

If I were still teaching, I would share this book as an opening to the semester with all my classes, from AP Literature (cynics) to the squirrely too cool for school freshmen. They would love it and borrow the title throughout the year.

Since I am now retired from teaching, I am contacting my friends and relatives and the Amazon audience: buy this book whether you have little ones or not. Beauty can be held in your hand and will live in your heart.

The final pages are a tribute to the joy of books. This book is a joy.

A must for all you daydreamers or if you just want to remember what it felt like to be a child

This is the second book by Rob that I have collected and like the first, it is fun and creative.

This book consists of a wonderful collection of beautiful and creative drawings by Robert Gonslaves interspersed with poetic musings by Sarah Thompson. While most books listing an author and illustrator are mainly text, in this case the writing is superfluous at best, and annoying at worst. The sense of wonder inspired by the pictures needs no commentary, especially of the vacuous and meaningless stock thoughts written here. Don't get me wrong, the book is well worth the purchase price and can be looked at and enjoyed time and time again. Just next time, Gonslaves should strike out on his own with the art and perhaps some technical explanations of how he did what he did.