One Day I Went Rambling
Kelly Goldman Bennett Terri Murphy illustrator

Bright Sky Press
April 2012 / ISBN 1936474069
Fiction-children ages 6 and up
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Reviewed by Willie Elliott

Kelly Bennett's story of a boy who finds treasures in everyday objects is entitled One Day I Went Rambling. Zane uses his imagination to turn simple objects into treasures-a hubcap becomes a flying saucer and an old wooden crate becomes Huck Finn's trusty raft. At first Zane's friends don't quite see the possibilities of the objects that they find, but eventually Zane is able to awaken their imagination and they become treasure hunters.

The story will encourage young readers to develop and use their imagination and apply it just as video game producers and moviemakers do.
Illustrator Terri Murphy helps greatly in this task of turning on the imagination as her hubcap does indeed look like a star and a packing crate could easily pass for a wooden barge-that is if the imagination is used. This is a great book to introduce the idea of imagery.