While spending the day at the beach, Daisy's imaginary friend Posey turns her into a mermaid and they help a lost octopus reunite with her friends.

Natalia and her brother become separted from their mother at a train station in London. They set out to find their mother and are accompanied by Shao Li, Natalie's imaginary friend, who is a source of courage and strength.

When Tim arrives at the park to play only to find he is the sole child there, his mother suggests that if he looks a little closer he might find a pig on the swing or a kangaroo on the seesaw.

Eleven-year-old Jack's difficulties in dealing with his younger sister Annie, a child genius, worsen when Annie claims to have a new friend from the twenty-fifth century and Jack worries that this development will keep him from going to visit his father in America.

When Ellie makes three wishes and begins to believe in the magic of Christmas, all kinds of miracles occur, from broken tree lights twinkling again, to angel shapes appearing in snow, to the biggest of all: a baby brother arriving soon. It all happened in the time of Billy Lee.

Alejandro is intimidated by his older brother Simon's imaginary dragon, until he is able to create his own friend, a camel named Calvino.

Anna feels lonelier than ever when her parents go off on a trip without her. She imagines another girl her own age, Astrid, and sends her a letter. To her surprise, Astrid writes back! But as the two become friends, Anna begins to wonder if Astrid is closer than she first thought. . . --Back cover.

There is a juncture where fantasy and reality co-exist and sometimes the lines between the two get blurry. This is the tale of a lonely boy who visits that place and begins developing the friendship needed to help chart the awkward path to manhood. Set in the early 60{u2019}s, the boy has spent his life hiding behind a wall of books, movies, television and radio. His ability to come out from behind the wall and face the harsh truths of adulthood will...

"Kate learns a valuable lesson when her best friend Mim-Mim makes a wish to change himself in the magical land of Mimiloo"--

"Struggling to keep her emotions in check whenever they get very big, a little girl attempts to resist the naughty impulses of a disruptive imaginary best friend who convinces her to run away on an adventure of endless stomping, jumping, and wild fun." --