Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
A sequence of impossible creatures and places invites a child to notice that thinking can move in any direction.
- First published
- 1975
- Reading stage
- Picture books & shared reading
Reading this with your child
Use each spread as an invention prompt
The book does not depend on a conventional plot. Pick one imagined creature or place, describe what is visible, then ask the child to add one rule: where it lives, what it eats or what makes it surprising.
Short sentences support shared reading
Random House identifies the title as a Beginner Book with brief sentences, catchy rhyme and illustration clues. A beginning reader can take a repeated phrase while an adult handles the unfamiliar invented names.
Imagination is the subject, not a comprehension puzzle
There is no need to make every nonsense word mean one fixed thing. The useful conversation is about how a sound and picture suggest possibilities, and how two readers can imagine different answers.
Compare before choosing: Thinks ranges across free invention, while Wocket gives imagination a tighter game: rhyme a creature with a familiar household object. View the comparison title →
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