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Just imagine what it would be like to be as small as a mouse; or as big as a house. Imagine exploring the depths of the ocean, travelling into the past or the future - or something even stranger...

This wonderfully inventive and interactive book allows a child to tell their own story, combining new elements each time. And with intricately detailed illustrations for parent and child to pore over together, this really is a book to share time and time again.

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Publishers Weekly Review

In a companion to You Choose, the question "Can you imagine being big?" kicks off a succession of what-if scenarios featuring a redheaded girl and a bespectacled boy exploring and transforming themselves amid pages crowded with animals, magical creatures, wild machinery, and more. "Imagine being made differently-not really human at all," Goodhart suggests as Sharratt pictures the boy as a centaur and a living candle, while the girl morphs into a ghost and a balloon. Other spreads invite readers to imagine traveling through time, inventing the "best machine," and living underground or underwater. Sharrat's signature brand of simple, bright cartooning and Goodhart's reader-directed prompts and tidbits of information offer diversions aplenty. Ages 3-7. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

School Library Journal Review

PreS-K-Best suited for individual sharing, this title prompts readers to imagine life differently: "Can you imagine being big?/Or would you like to be small?/Imagine being made differently-not really human at all." Each busy spread shows upwards of 10 different scenarios that could happen if readers allow themselves to wonder. The last page tells readers to "dream yourself however you'd most like to be." Many brightly colored smaller sketches are presented in each spread, which may serve to direct readers' imaginings rather than encourage their own. The text works best as a conversation starter for adults, who often need help to think like a child again; this book can serve as that medium. An additional purchase.- Emily E. Lazio, The Smithtown Special Library District, NY (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

Close your eyes and dream yourself into whatever you'd like to be!A possibly Asian boy, a Caucasian girl and a bright white mouse challenge readers on the title page: "Take a look inside this book, and decide what you'd like to be." Each two-page spread is a riot of bright pictures triggered by a single suggestion. "Can you imagine being BIG?" shows the boy towering over an airplane and making a big swimming pool look like a bathtub, while the girl blows on the lava coming out of a volcano and holds an elephant like it's a stuffed toy. "Would you like to travel through time?" takes themand readersto the 1960s, the time of the Vikings, ancient Egypt and many other elsewheres. "Imagine being an animal, living in the wild" offers a total of 50 options, each in a square portrait. "Imagine flying in the sky, or living in the sea" horizontally divides the two pages, each half ridiculously crowded (in the sky: dirigible, fairy, superhero, helicopter, winged pig and more; in the sea: Neptune, manatee, tortoise, treasure, mermaid, etc.). Even the inside cover is loaded with suggestions, in the form of gerunds: "growing, flying, sleeping, sneezing..." all the way to "dreaming"nearly 150 in all.Quantity alone qualifies this as compulsive and repeated reading, but there's a delightfully mirthful creativity at work as well. Good fun for a broad range of ages. (Picture book. 3-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.