Inside My Imagination

by Marta Arteaga, Zuzanna Celej (Illustrator), Jon Brokenbrow (Translator)

Overview

Winner of the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013. There is a door in every one of us that leads to our imagination, a world where anything is possible. Dou you dare to embark on the most wonderful journey to our inner-self?

One day when I was reading my story, I breathed in one of the words and something magical happened… I entered my imagination!

We have always been told about the power of imagination, but what is imagination? How does it work? There is a magical place where you can always be yourself. In there you can turn on your light and illuminate your life with it. That place is your imagination. Your imagination has a life and a voice of its own. It is like a voice that speaks inside of you and paints everything around you with vivid colors.

Within your imagination you are the king or queen of your creation. Open the door and discover how that place where we can always be ourselves is like and how does it work. And within your imagination ... what is there?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788415619314
Publisher:	Cuento de Luz
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	4 Years

About the Author

The award-winning auhtor Marta Arteaga is a writer of children's literature, poetry, cinematographic scripts, drama plays, songs and personalized stories. Her book Inside my imagination, translated into many languages, has been awarded gold medals at the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013.

Of Polish origin, award-winning Zuzanna Celej has a BA Honours in fine Arts from the Universityof Barcelona and Majored in Illustration at the Llotja Art School in Barcelona.

Editorial Reviews

"A children's book that recognizes the imagination as a place for practice.” —www.spiritualityandpractice.com

From the Publisher

Imagination is an elusive concept, and this book misses the boat in its attempt to deconstruct one girl's creative process. The nameless child tries to describe how her mind works as she explores the world of her imagination, entering it quite literally through a door and seeing legendary characters: "unicorns, fairies, elves and magicians." Then she proceeds to use a series of similes: "My imagination is like a sea of thoughts that float and glide over each other." "My imagination is like a land of clouds of different shapes." Since she starts by discussing story and writing, a segue to letters and words makes sense, but this is a limited view of imagination and creativity. She includes one reference to music but none to scientific creativity or the visual arts. Light bulbs and gears appear as clichéd images inside her mind. Illustrations mix watercolor and drawing and sometimes have a diagrammatic look. The limited palette is quite sophisticated, as is some language. As the text ends, the narrator speaks about what happens after her words hold hands: "And they cross the bridge of my imagination that connects my worlds: the internal and the external." Originally published in Spain, this amorphous volume could certainly be used as a jumping-off point by a creative adult, but there are far better books on the topic available. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews