A young girl is walking home from school in a big city. As she gazes up at window after window in the buildings on her route - each one a different shape and size - she imagines what might be going on behind them.

It was a wonderful read. I like such innocent tales. Girl watches windows on her way back home and then imagines what may be happening behind them.
Artwork is we excellent. A very good read for comics and graphic novel lovers .
Thanks netgalley and the publisher for review copy.

Oh, these kinds of books are so much fun because they elicit so much imagination in the reader! It's a wordless book showing a young girl walking home from school. Along the way, she looks up at the different windows that she passes and imagines what may be going on inside.

The first time you read this with kids, as them to imagine what is in that window before they turn the page to see what the girl is thinking. Let them stretch their imagination wings first. And maybe they will be inspired to create their own drawings of what's behind each window, or even create their own windows. You could also go on a hunt around the neighborhood to see what kinds of windows you can find and what may be happening behind them. So much open-ended fun with a book like this!

Thank you to the publisher for fulfilling my review request via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A young child with pale skin and glasses walks home from school and wonders what might be going on behind the windows of the houses on the way. The child imagines scenes like a man napping with many cats all over him, a caterpillar having a party, a human and a dog trying on masks together, bears reading books, and other silly scenes. There is a skillful contrast between the pages where the child is walking versus the imagined window scenes: all the scenes with the child walking are majority white space, with the exception of where the child is walking on the page. Then, when the child is imagining what is happening on the other side of the window, the page becomes covered in b&w felt-tip illustrations depicting the scene in great and whimsical detail. For example, the scene with the bears reading features a bookshelf in the background with pigs, squirrels, carrots, and over-sized pencils scattered throughout the shelves. In between the child walking and seeing through the window, there is a transitional page dedicated to showing what the window looks like, providing a kind of doorway to the next scene. Sometimes the details of the window hint at what the child may start to imagine behind the window. This book would be great to use for making inferences and also to encourage similar creative play. Review based on an ARC.

This book is stunning. It's a wordless book following a girl on her walk home, as she imagines what's happening in the windows she passes. The illustrations are incredible on a screen and I can only imagine how much better they are in real life. This is definitely a book to add to both my school and personal collections.

Love love love this book! How do I go about getting a copy to kid me in the '70s? She would've loved this so much! The illustrations are so full of whimsical delight, they're sure to keep anyone entertained for hours. A little girl is walking home, looking at the windows up high on the building along the street as she goes by. She imagines what is happening behind each window, and we get to see the elaborate scenarios she comes up with. There's so much detail going on, the reader can continue to imagine the story for themselves. Some rooms have a bit of cheeky menace, like the witch sitting in her chair reading a book about how to cook children, while her victim is escaping, while others have more fun things happening, like small cars racing around, driven by tiny animals. The room of the mask collector is my favorite, I think. The last window is the little girl's bedroom, where we find out her name is Martha, and we see some very familiar things strewn about. A good book for all ages!

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Without telling us as much in words, this book follows a little girl, who we eventually get to know as Martha, who walks home from school and imagines what hides behind various windows in her neighborhood.

The pictures are drawn in black and white, exquisitely detailed, perhaps a bit more creepy than I'd go for (all the random eyes everywhere!), but absolutely fascinating and a great visual representation of a child's overactive imagination. Even the negative space is used well, filled with various patterns and smaller illustrations.

I chuckled at the various "bad guys" who seem to have it out for children ("a child a day keeps the doctor away", indeed!) and aww-ed at the cute animals, from a dog wearing a mask to a wide array of animals reading books.

This is the kind of book you can come back to again and again and always find something you'd missed the last time around. Gorgeous and captivating!

Marion Arbona puts the reader under a spell with her gorgeous (and a whole lot of other adjectives) illustrations. This one, once again, compels you to think about everyday things and people you come across in a different way. The right book for an afternoon of dreaming and wondering.

This is a wonderfully exuberant book of line drawings of what might be behind a set of quirky windows. It does not work well as an e-book , but I already want to pore over each page, searching for new details. I think this could give pleasure for years and to readers of all ages. The poetry and artwork that could be inspired is boundless. Each window offers a different world. What would see? Where would you go?

Thank you NetGalley and Kids Can Press for another free ARC in return for my honest review.
A very interesting and fun picture book. But it is not a typical picture book. When I read this book I am reminded of the city of Chicago where you are told to "look up" and see all the amazing architecture. Here our little heroine dreams of what is behind windows, and she is always looking up to see the windows which lifts her spirits and allows her imagination to soar. Each page or 2 we have new windows, new imaginings and new fun. Let your mind and soul run wild. Kids nowadays seem to have little imagination and if they do it is sitting in front of a computer screen. Kids who read this book will have fun finding all the items behind each window and hopefully this will encourage them to "look up" and dream and imagine!

As a child (even as a grown up woman) I would always tried to peep into other people's lives through their windows or doors (sounds creepy now).
I always tried to imagine how these people lived ,their likes and dislikes,their routine,their valuables etc .

This story is about a little girl like me who tries to imagine what is behind athe windows.And her imagination is depicted in thorough illustrations.
Really enjoyed these little adventures of a creative mind.

I didn’t think I’d enjoy a wordless picture book so much. A girl is walking the streets viewing an assortment of interesting-looking windows and imagining what’s going on behind each one. Such an imagination! The illustrations are superb. I read this via NetGalley, courtesy of the publisher.

Pure Imagination: A Review of Window
APRIL 17, 2020
Written and illustrated by Marion Arbona
Published by Kids Can Press
Ages 4-8
Available March 3, 2020

Walking home from school, a young girl looks up at the windows as she makes her way through the city. Each window is shaped differently, and each window holds a different adventure: creatures playing games, a jungle, and even a whale in a bathtub. It is not until the last window, when the girl is back inside her bedroom, that the reader sees familiar faces.

Marion Arbona’s wordless picture book is a treasure. With drawings reminiscent of Edward Gorey’s surrealist style, these black and white images provoke questions and curiosity. The fine detail work within each drawing is puzzle-like: young readers may want to explore and make up their own plot within each window-scheme. Images, like the story’s imagined jungle, have layers of visual information within them; readers can return to them again and again, looking for previously missed pieces and plucking out smaller narratives within the book’s larger plot. Window contains multitudes.

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I received an electronic copy from Kids Can Press through NetGalley.
The story begins with a young girl looking out the window during class; she's obviously daydreaming rather than listening. When school is dismissed, she races out of the building and readers join her on her walk home. She glances at windows and imagines who/what is behind each. Love how Arbona shows her journey by showing her farther across the page in between each window image.
The black and white illustrations work well as readers explore her imagination and are able to further the stories in their heads.

What an imaginative little book! We go for a walk with a little girl with a BIG imagination! Along the way many windows are pictured of different sizes, shapes, and styles. But what she imagines behind the windows is much more interesting (and often inspired by the style of window or something on the window ledge, etc.). There are no words, only pictures as we see each window and what she imagines is behind it on the following page.

I liked this quite a bit! This would be excellent for the classroom to talk about predictions and inferences. And to encourage imagination! Parents could also take this a step further and go on their own window imagining walk!

5 imagination-building stars!

YOU need this book to encourage little imaginations!

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Really fantastic! The imagination and creativity is amazing. I wish I'd thought of playing a game like this when I was a child.

A captivating concept brought to life through the creative and expressive designs of each window and clever use of limited colours.

The strength of this wordless black and white picture book is in the exquisite, intricate art. A young girl walks home from school and imagines what's going on in all the windows. It's interesting, creative and unique, and a great book for children who are not yet reading but want to read on their own and those who love art or imagination.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

Beautiful illustrations. Can definitely use this for teaching inference in class. The children will love it!

A cute short wordless story of a girl walking home from school and sees windows of different shapes and sizes, and imagines what's behind all of these windows. The story is in black and white and each scene is very detailed and wonderfully full of details.

I read this as an e-book, and it definitely works best as a physical book, if you're buying it for a child, because that's the only to really appreciate the beautiful full spreads. I thank netgalley for the digital copy, and I'll definitely keep an eye on this artist in the future.