A World of Your Own

K-Gr 2—As Carlin takes readers on a journey through her own colorful, imaginative visual world, she encourages them to look around and create their own worlds based upon their experiences, preferences, and best memories. Through gentle prompts, she urges children to think about where and how they might like to live. What would their homes look like? What places would they like to visit? "What important thing would you learn in your school?" How can they make their worlds even better? Combining colors, shapes, forms, graphics, and watercolors, the author inspires readers to think outside the box and discover a world that exists in their own imagination, urging them to start over as many times as they like and to look to real life for inspiration. Combine this book with Sarah Perry's If… (Getty Museum, 1995), Rod Clement's Just Another Ordinary Day (HarperCollins, 1997), and Paul Fleischman's Westlandia (Candlewick, 1999) to have readers conjuring up limitless possibilities where anything can happen.—Paula Huddy, The Blake School-Highcroft Campus, Wayzata, MN