Books like Jillian Jiggs
By Phoebe Gilman
For the kid who turns every afternoon into a costume change and never sees the point of tidying up when there's still so much to pretend, Jillian Jiggs feels like a mirror. Bouncy, rhyming, and full of restless creative energy.
A little boy turns his living room into a bustling traffic world, using records as rotaries, shoe boxes as highway ramps, and crayons as lane markers to make his cars stop and go.
A young inventor imagines the ultimate car — complete with a snack bar, a swimming pool, and a robot chauffeur named Robert — then takes it out for a wild test drive with his dad.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A groovy cat's rainy day surfing plans get cancelled, but instead of getting sad, he turns a big box into a launchpad for his imagination.
A family of kids and babies fills the house with jazz — humming, drumming, tapping piano keys, and swaying to a beat that carries them all the way to sleep.
A spirited girl claims the giant box from a new refrigerator and turns it into a castle, a clubhouse, and countless other creations, sharing every adventure with her neighbor Fats Watson.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A little girl with a big imagination gets a mysterious package in the mail and starts sprinkling glitter on everything, until glitter is everywhere — and she and her best pal start disappearing into the sparkle.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.
