Here's a fun book that celebrates the power of imagination. Conrad's rhyming text explains how things can be whatever you dream they can be. The illustrations are bright, textured, and colorful. This would be fun to read aloud.

I really enjoyed that this story facilitates imagination and utilizing every day items for play. Children can find fun in the every day. My baby loves to play with a rubber kitchen spatula!

I do find that the colour choices and the lack of perspective in the drawing style makes it difficult to understand what the scene is trying to convey. I had to read and then analyze the page to find how it ties into the words, it wasn’t automatically obvious. If it’s difficult for me as an adult, I think it would be also hard for a young child to view the pages in the way the author intends.

I found it hard to make out the objects as they felt cluttered on the page and the colour choices blended the objects rather than make them stand out on their own. For example “this is an office” page, it felt so clustered and overwhelming with all the objects. In looking at it, it looks like copy/paste of a digital collage. Because of this artwork style, in each scene I found this made it difficult to make out the objects and what they’re being utilized for in each kid’s scene of acting out their imagination. I think if there was a different illustration style that helped facilitate movement, providing perspective/depth/proportion/scale it would’ve been more effective for the story

Again, loved the concept for the story. I wished the visuals were clearer.

Love so many elements of this book!!

The power of imagination is what resonates with me!! However the illustrations, rhyme, images I can picture in my head, “this is a sun” made this a definite purchase for my own bookshelf and likely my classroom!!

So so well done!!

Thank you for the ARC!

A child’s imagination is such a beautiful and wondrous thing. This perfect little book shows us just how creative they can be. The story uses simple, rhyming text along with vibrant and colorful illustrations to tell us the many ways these kids use their imagination. We get to see them use different things and places around the home in the most creative ways. We loved the zoo on the shelf, the store in the living room, the picnic table as a boat and the bathroom as a kingdom. It was so fun. We love the ending and you will too. We received this as an ebook ARC but we loved it so much we will be adding it to our home library and gifting to several friends. This would be a great addition to any early childhood classroom as well. The possibilities are endless. I highly recommend this story. Enjoy this adventure with your little ones.

This is such a cute book! I love how it shows kids exploring their imagination! More kids need to learn how to do that!!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

This preschool - Kindergarten-aged picture book focuses on the whimsical nature of play and the way kids stretch their imagination. Readers see the neighborhood kids turn a bathtub into a kingdom, a tree into a city, and a picnic table into a boat.

This story is meant to tell the tale of children at play and all the imaginative things they can do while just being at home but I feel it falls flat. The artwork does not further the prose - in fact, sometimes it is confusing - and with prose as ambiguous as “here is a zoo,” it does not visually spell out what it is implying. It might be best for an adult-child read aloud rather than a storytime so that the reader can take the time for the child to really study the illustrations. The story itself is not that compelling, so the artwork needs to make up for its lack of plot, and although it is “cute” it isn’t very easy to see what is going on. Perhaps a secondary addition to those looking to purchase younger picture books for their home.

This is a Window is a fantastic, imaginative, and diverse book that encourages play with around the house. It's definitely a title I will be using in story time once it is published. It gives power to imagination and the creative ways we see the world around us.

This Is a Window is a reminder to all of us the power of imagination. It tells the story of children taking everyday things and creating fun adventures.

Very sweet story for children and their grownups.
Recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to preview this book.