Imagine This!

Joanne Froh
Joanne Frances Press (2006)
ISBN 0977764001
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (11/06)

“Imagine This!” reaches into our daydreams and fantasies and brings them to light. 
Imagine my delight when “Imagine This!” arrived at my home. I remember well a cardboard box playhouse, making mud pies, pretending that my stuffed animals were my loyal subjects and that my swing was my throne.  The branches of a weeping willow were my hideout for many lazy summer days.  My favorite is “Tissued Wings”

Tissued Wings
I dream of a sylvan fairy glade
Where only I can go
Flickering with golden dappled shade
And dew wet grass aglow.

I dream of the silver radiance
Of tiny tissued wings
On fairies doing their mystic dance
around the toadstool rings.

And if I find they’re but dragonflies
Darting from weed to weed
Should I believe only in my eyes
Or go where dreams can lead?

Joanne Froh has dipped deep into the recesses of our minds and fished out childhood memories and put them in lyrical form.  She has done so with great finesse.  The illustrations add to each poem, expressing it in a visual manner.  This is not a book for children!  This is a book for all ages.  Children will love the poems but adults will savor the memories the poems bring to the surface.  My grandchildren love this book and eagerly bring it too me for story time.  It is with great honor that I highly recommend this “Imagine This!”  Well-done Ms. Froh and Ms.Plagens (illustrator.)

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