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October 28, 2005

Imagine - A Book List for Children's Book Week

Imagine a child who can speak the language of cats; imagine a world where dragons exist; imagine a librarian who introduces animals to the joys of reading; and imagine two children who find a magic treehouse that takes them back through time. These and other stories appear on the Imagine book list. Imagine is the theme of the 2005 Children's Book Week.

Judy Sierra. Wild About Books
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

Mary Pope Osbourne. Dinosaurs Before Dark
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Magic Tree House series

Zizou Corder. Lion Boy
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
Lion Boy series

Christopher Paolini. Eragon
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Inheritance series