Review: The riches of Julie's imagination
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
Anat Umansky has created yet another fine children's book that celebrates imagination. With immensely successful illustrations by Eyvgeni Lagutin this little book sings with richly colorful ideas and thoughts and images.Julie is an unusual girl - `This girl when she wants something, she can move a mountain' her mother states. And sure enough Julie climbs a mulberry tree, makes her breath become a storm, grows wings and flies as a sparrow, even makes a fever when she is sick she becomes like the flame of a candle, makes her pink dress become an enchanted flower, becomes a protective whale swimming in the sea, becomes a rolling hoop, becomes the queen of darkness when frightened momentarily by her own shadow, when she is afraid she becomes a powerful magic woman who makes fear a faithful servant, at night she dreams she shines like a star and climbs a ladder of clouds, and when she awakens in the morning she feels the sun's rays penetrating her body - and that is likely the reason her mother calls Julie her shining beam light.Pure fantasy this time around, Anat Umansky extends her own imagination to create one of the most beautiful of her books. Little girls will especially love this beautiful imaginative adventure an even expand their own ability to infuse imagination into their own lives. Grady Harp, February 14