Do you remember being a child? I’m not talking about our memories of our childhood. Rather our wonderment as a child. The imagination, the excitement of new things, and the wonderment of how our world worked.
The world of wonderment and imagination was so important back in the day. We actually worked through our emotions through our imaginative play. Whether we played with friends or not.
Nowadays imagination is harder to come by because of the marketing of items that take away from our imagination. When we wanted to pretend we were driving a car, we got boxes and made the best car we could but used mostly our imagination. These days they have actual kids cars that run by battery.
Although imaginative play may have decreased, wonderment still exists. The nightly ritual of reading a book before bed is something that increases the imagination and keeps wonderment going strong.
A book opens a world of characters that can make you laugh, scream, cry, or smile. Pictures give you an idea what the characters look like maybe or what their room may look like, but its limited.
For example a chapter book that I wrote but haven’t published yet called, The Fallen Fence. Its about a boy named Billy, who has a troubled life; so he escapes his world with his imagination. The story brings you into his imagination. He sees everything around him in his imaginative world.
The wonderment comes; how is he going to get through that? What’s going to happen next? What would you do if you were the character in that situation? The character Billy may be troubled, but when a loose fence slat starts to swing back and forth, his wonderment carries him to places and times he never imagined.
Keep posted for this book coming out sometime this year and let your child imagine through the visions in their head. Their wonderment will be intrigued through Billy’s troubled, imaginative world that takes him to far off places, your child can only imagine and wonder, how Billy is ever going to get back home.
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