This book is great!  As a speech pathologist, I can use this book to teach all ages.  It has a chance to answer wh-questions.  Children can also ask their own questions.  The illustrations are beautiful, and useful to talk about adjectives and have the students use their own writing skills.  I service children from the ages 3-21 and feel that this book can be used by all ages.  This is definitely on my purchase list.

Es la primera vez que leo un libro de Sarah Perry. Descubrí a la autora en la plataforma NetGalley. Puedo aseguraros que ha sido un verdadero placer tener esta edición en mis manos.

“If…” Este libro lleva la lectura al siguiente nivel! Sarah Perry ha mostrado a los lectores una nueva manera de poder viajar a otros mundos mediante sus ilustraciones surrealistas. Invita al desarrollo de la creatividad e imaginación.

Cada ilustración que forma parte de este libro de arte es sublime. Me ha gustado la lectura porque me ha tenido riendo y manteniendo mi curiosidad todo el tiempo, hasta el final. Esta edición se publicará conmemorando el 25 aniversario de su publicación en 1995.

Invito a los lectores esta lectura llena de belleza, surrealismo y frescura!

My nine year old son and I received an advance reviewer copy of the new edition of this book. We’d never read it before. 

We enjoyed all of the pictures and the secrets described at the end.  The ideas were interesting, surprising, and sometimes weird—in a good way. They got us thinking about if the world was different from how it is now.

It’s similar to another favorite of ours, Imagine a World. Enjoy!

What a beautiful and timeless classic! A wonderful book that encourages young and old to use their imagination.
Beautiful illustrations as well!

I had a smile on my face as I flipped through each page of this book. It truly captures the magic and joy of childhood. Each page brings imagination to life by illustrating "what if" scenarios in beautiful and detailed drawings. This is the type of book children and parents will enjoy reading over and over again. In my mind, this is the perfect example of everything a children's book should be.

I absolutely loved the illustrations in this book. They are probably the best I’ve ever seen! It was a little strange, but I like strange!

I adore this children's book and love the idea of these crazy pairs that the author put together. Sarah Perry explores and illustrates what it would look like: if cats could fly, if mice were hair, or if worms had wheels. And much more.

Illustrations are lovely, and the whole design of this book is beautiful.

I have a mixed feeling about this collection. Some of the pictures are wonderful, sparks imagination, and some of other pictures are giving me chills, too surreal, and yet too real, feels like the nightmare coming true. I guess that also shows a powerful side of this book.

A quirky fun book that invites your imagination out to play - the pages offer up simple "what ifs" vibrantly illustrated (sometimes more than meets the eye at first glance). Whether you simply giggle over the creative possibilities or use the ideas to spark your own, kids and adults alike will enjoy a fantastical flip through theses pages.

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Opening the book, I had no clue what would be inside. A picture book? Nicely drawn images? But actually the author promotes imagination of something different, and makes us create stories of the unknown.

Twenty-five years after its original publication, If by Sarah Perry still holds up. The perfect book to read to young children to begin a conversation about what could be.

Review of eBook

Imagination takes flight in the pages of this stunning book. Over a two-page spread, twenty-two different “what if” fantastical suppositions are matched with a full-page illustration. What if: cats could fly . . . dogs were mountains . . . music could be held . . . whales lived in outer space . . . the moon were square? 

But the colorful watercolor illustrations reveal even more. What can you discover? And what is your own “What if” idea?

Although intended for young readers ages four through seven, this magical picture book, a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the original publication, is sure to delight readers of all ages. Two new “what ifs” have been added for this edition: What if turtles were magnetic . . . and What if dreams were visible . . . . And don’t miss the surprises awaiting you in the Readers Guide to the Secrets of “If . . .”

Take an imaginative journey of endless possibilities and see where this book takes you.

Highly recommended.

I received a free copy of this eBook from Getty Publications and NetGalley 
#If #NetGalley

The highly illustrative nature of this title will appeal to children without question. The illustrations are very high quality, but I can see adults struggling with some of them (toe teeth, for example!). I would definitely stock although I think the quality of the book is lost in digital form, as time is needed to sit and fully absorb the beauty of the illustrations.
I can see the appeal to children who can't quite read yet as a book to "read" independently, which is very important. It might also be quite fun for children to have a go at recreating some of these ideas, or suggesting how they may alternatively look.
The final pages give some brief ideas on how to interact with the book, these are easily expanded on by parents, I feel. They would also make great talking points for discussions between parents on how to get the most out of the book.

This is the 25th anniversary version of this book of which I was completely unware until I got an email about it asking if I'd like to review it. It sounded good to me, and now I'm happy that I did because this book is beautiful, and amazing, and it's lots of fun. My kids would have loved this too, when they were younger. They probably still would.

The book, some fifty pages long, asks a question and then illustrates it in gorgeous detail and bold colors. The cover illustrates one of the internal pages, which asks "What if leaves were fish," and shows a branch with some fruit and a bunch of shoaling green fish! There are pages showing slumbering dogs as foothills, butterflies as clothes, flying cats, hair made of mice, worms on wheels and dreaming meerkats. The author, in a small section at the back, invites the readers' imagination to run wild, using her illustrations, and combining them or making up stories about them - or dreaming up your own.

This was an amazing, sweet, fun, and wonderful book and I highly commend it.

‘’If cats could fly…’’

‘’If frogs ate rainbows...’’

‘’If music could be held…’’

‘’If clouds were spirits…’’

‘’If butterflies were clothes…’’

‘’If dreams were visible…’’

If only they could reach a little higher…

This is the 25th Anniversary Edition of the picture book of poems and dreams by the American sculptor Sarah Perry. Surreal images and one-line poems that dare us to think of a whimsical ‘’what-if’’...

Many thanks to Getty Publications and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely love this book. One of my favorites was What if teeth were toes. I love the detail in all of the pictures. The book makes me wonder what other possibilities are out there. Thank you, NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.

This is a lovely picture book of odd things to think about. A good jumping off point for discussions after reading the book.

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Now, can't say that I have ever wondered about any of these things. I mean, puppies as hills?  Fish as leaves? Music you can hold?

It makes for lovely pictures, though, and quite enjoyable. Weird, yes, but enjoyable.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

If...dreams were visible, what would that look like.

Together with your imaginative children, you can experience the what ifs and go even further. The what if's gives your child possibilities that can seem endless. With colorful illustrations to guide you, you may even have your own what if's.

Thank you Getty Publications and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review

Five-year-olds with vivid imaginations will love this book. "If dogs were mountains," "if butterflies were clothes," "if music could be held," each idea accompanied by a wonderful illustration. An opportunity to branch out from this book and let children think creatively, outside of the box.

Very surrealistic and imaginative. This book imagines "what if...." with a myriad of items, some I really enjoyed ("What if whales lived in outer space?"), some I found rather creepy ("What if mice were hair?"). The illustrations were wonderfully rendered to go along with the "if". 
Would be a great book to utilize with the study of surrealism.