Books with title What If?

What if children happily went to bed every night on time? Impossible? Probably. But this delightful book will help make bedtime a fun time for everyone.What If... features a little boy who uses his fantastic imagination to delay bedtime for as long as possible.While reading this enchanting, dream-aloud bedtime story, children will have great fun imagining "what ifs" of their own.

What if you could be in two places at once? It has never occurred to sixteen-year-old Emma Bartlett that one day her family might leave behind everything she knows and loves to pursue a new life. She is completely content with her current life as a sophomore on the varsity soccer team. But school is only one part of her life. Her parents Sarah and George, a civilian professor at the Air Force Academy, have made their Colorado Springs home into a haven for cadets from the academy. Every Saturday night for as long as Emma can remember, cadets and friends have gathered at the Bartlett home for a meal and a break from the stress of academy life. Emma loves everything about this part of her life, including their old house. It is Christmas and Thanksgiving and the first snowfall of winter. It is hot chocolate by the fire and endless hide-n-seek and soccer games in the backyard. It is watching the world from a warm window seat on a snowy day. Even though the wind whistles through the windows and the paint is forever peeling on the back porch, Emma thinks it is the perfect house, the perfect life. Emma is devastated when her family moves from Colorado to Hawaii. Living in paradise is no compensation for her deepest wish to get back to a real paradise: home in Colorado. So intense is the need that she indulges in a fantasy: what if we'd never moved?

When they find out a kangaroo is coming to stay, the barnyard animals at Buttercup Farm get very worried. They've never seen a kangaroo before. What if she crows better than Rooster, or catches more mice than Cat? Or gives creamier milk than Cow? Then they would all be out of jobs! But when she finally arrives, the animals learn what a kangaroo can really do.

Artist Statement -Fixed on a portrayal of longing and a passionate desire to journey beyond the restrictive present, my figures embody the emotions of isolation and captivity tempered with the hope of escape. Appearing in a trancelike state of daydream absorbed by fanciful journeys, the figures are propelled into imaginative journeys as well as lives of personal completeness.Hop on board and take a journey with me! What if? Lets find out!

Shannon Block is an entrepreneur, mother and proud member of the global community. She is the CEO of World Forward, President of the Women’s Forum of Colorado, previous CEO of Denver Zoo, former CEO of Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers and former Chief Business Development Officer of Denver Health. Her educational background includes a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Applied Mathematics from George Washington University, M.S. in Physics from Tufts University and she is currently completing her Doctorate in Computer Science.

A humorous nonsense rhyming picture book. 'What if?' questions just that' . What if things were not as they first seem what if our dreams are real and the things we fear are actually blessings etc...It is easier to react in a negative way because the brain is more alert to danger and so the 'what if? questions in our lives can often become the worst scenarios in our minds.This book aims to encourage the reader to open up the imagination and to use 'what if' in an alternative, positive and appealing way. It also reminds us the world is full of possibilities and exactly how magical the mind can be..