As a young girl practices various standard yoga poses, she imagines herself as a tree touching the sky, a playful dog, a warrior, and more while relaxing and seeing how she fits into the world.

The waitress in this restaurant just doesn't have a clue. Monsters don't eat broccoli. How could she think we do? These fearsome but finicky monsters insist they don't like food from the garden--leave that to the humans. They'd rather snack on tractors or a rocket ship or two, or tender trailer tidbits or a wheely, steely stew. But boy, do those trees they're munching on look an awful lot like broccoli. Maybe vegetables aren't so bad after all.

In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.

A boy follows his dog one night to see what exactly dogs do at night when they're on their own.

Pete does not like wearing pants, so he imagines himself as a boulder, or a squirrel, or maybe a cloud--just as long as he does not have to wear pants.

As their mother counts down the time, Zoe and her sister Addie hurry to complete their game of chase in an imaginary jungle.

Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.

"Xiomara loves having Papa braid her hair and imagining various adventures that feature her trenzas."--

A "special witch's cat" is certain her mother is a witch because she keeps special potions in the bathroom, grows magical herbs in her garden, and whirls her broomstick around the room once a week.

A little girl who plays dress-up to fool her mother every Saturday dons disguises and rings the doorbell, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.