Picture Day

By Morgan and Linda Gresky
Price $16.95
Age 3-9 yrs.

This deliciously fun book shows what brainstorming looks like when a child's boundless creativity is set loose on a problem. It's the morning of picture day at school and Stanley's favorite shirt is wrinkled. How, exactly, is he to get those wrinkles out in time for class? Grownups may shake their heads knowingly at some of Stanley's outside-the-box shirt pressing techniques (a skateboard, a basketball, a monster truck, . . .), but young readers view these farfetched methods with equal amounts amusement and optimism. Throughout it all, Stanley's room (and the many glorious full-page illustrations thereof) is bristling with activity as toys come to life, Kitty repeatedly gets in on the action, and Mom stealthily removes and returns the shirt, freshly ironed. Picture Day joyously celebrates the fact that, with a child-sized imagination, anything and everything becomes an adventure!