If...

by Sarah Perry

Book Overview

In her first book, artist Sarah Perry has created twenty magical watercolors that are an open invitation to the imaginations of children. Beautifully produced in full color, these fantastic images conjure up a world of limitless possibilities where anything can happen: leaves turn into green fish...cats fly about on wings...and butterflies become a little girl's coat of many colors. Children of all ages will enjoy this book, the Getty Museum's first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363215
• ISBN13: 9780892363216
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Creative and Fun

I read this book to my daughter's kindergarten class and they loved it. The pictures are wonderful, but the best part is its imagination. It encourages kids to think in new ways and inspires creative thinking (and hopefully an interest in the arts). I enjoyed it and heartily recommend it.

A Writer's Motivational Device

I witnessed a teacher using If... with third graders. They were so eager to create their own If... segments. Even children who are skeptical of reading and writing were able to enjoy the follow up activity. Sculptor Sarah Perry sure knows how to spark a child's imagination. No elementary classroom should be without If...

Awesome book to expand children's imagination

I read this book and immediately usd it as a story prompt for my first grade class. They first drew their own If.. pictures then wrote about them.

A novel picture book that gets kids' imaginations going.

This attractive, well-written picture book holds younger children from 3 on up spellbound with its surprising and funny new ways of re-imagining reality in nature (not to mention the nature of reality). Imagine, for example, a caterpillar coming out of a toothpaste tube instead of toothpaste, or if the moon were ... square! Does wonders for sparking childrens' fantasies. Would make a thoughtful teacher thank-you gift or classroom library donation.