After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to the island where the wild things are.

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

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 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.

After bumping his knee one morning, Ted decides to become a doctor, but he has only one problem--he has no patients!

Sam and Dave are sure they will discover something exciting if they just keep digging their hole.

"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 her imagination, a young girl assumes many shapes and forms, from dolphin and condor to wolf and jaguar.