While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.

Bobby does not want to come home when his mother calls for him, so he decides that he is no longer Bobby, but instead he is a dinosaur, a lion, a monster, an eagle, or a spaceship.

A young girl imagines her own future as she puts on costumes and pretends to be great women from history, including Amelia Earhart, Lucille Ball, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

One morning, Michael decides that he wants to be someone different, so he plays dress-up and becomes a businessman, a knight, and a pirate, but at the end of the day he finally decides who his favorite Michael is.

When he ventures outside to experience his first snowfall, a young rabbit discovers that his world has greatly changed.

When Alice follows a strange rabbit down a rabbit hole and passes through a looking glass, she experiences curious sensations and encounters the Mad Hatter, the fiendish Queen of Hearts, and many other odd characters.

"Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur...

In the eyes of an imaginative boy, his dog becomes a seal when he is slick with soap, a billy goat when he chews the mail, a croc when he crouches beneath the table stalking a crumb, and other animals.

"What could be more wonderful than sharing bedtime with beloved friends? This little boy loves to talk to his stuffed animals at the end of the day, and share with them all the things that happened to him that day--and to hear about their day, too"--

Dory, a highly imaginative yougest child, makes a new friend at school but her brother and sister are sure Rosabelle is imaginary, just like all of Dory's other friends.