This visually captivating picture book features intriguing and
delightfully detailed paintings by Rob Gonsalves, accompanied by Sarah L
Thomson’s evocative words. Thomson invites readers to ponder limitless
imaginative possibilities, with sparse text that provides space for the readers’
own thoughts and ideas to emerge.
Each of Gonsalves’
paintings carries the reader further into the realms of imagination. Flowing
curtains transform into elegant dancers, rooms subtly morph into cities and the
world becomes a gameboard as Gonsalves artfully plays with perspectives and
perceptions, in the great traditions of the art of optical illusion and transformation.
The meticulous attention to detail in the images, such as changing shadows and
reflections, subtly draw our view across the span of a painting, until we
realise the landscape has changed before our very eyes.
This picture
book provides endless opportunities to revisit, discover previously unnoticed
elements in the paintings and consider new ideas of one’s own. Imagine A Place lifts the shackles of
probable and leaves readers with a sense of possible.
Imagine
A Place is a
companion to Imagine A Day and Imagine A Night also by Sarah L Thomson
and Rob Gonsalves.
Title: Imagine A Place
Author: Sarah L. Thomson
Illustrator: Rob Gonsalves
Publisher: Atheneum Books, $29.99
Publication
Date: 21
October 2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9781416968023
For
ages: 4+
Type: Picture Book
