Imagination can take you anywhere. It's how dreams come true.   How amazing would it be to have an imagination that has you seeing a giraffe sneak into the classroom to steal your teacher's apple? Or maybe it has you wondering whether snakes have pickle-eating contests. Could bats make paper airplanes? Do chickens want to design rockets?   Lindy Loom has a fantastic imagination, but her teacher, Ms. Pinch, doesn't think it belongs everywhere.   Despite feeling a little nervous and anxious, Lindy points out that imagination has a place in art and architecture, science and technology, engineering, music and even math.    The question is, will Lindy be able to help her teacher see the awesome power of imagination?    If imagination can truly take you anywhere, where will it take you? And more importantly, did a unicorn really eat your homework? Kids these days are much more savvy than when I was growing up. The imaginations they have seem limitless, especially when coming up with excuses, right? I mean, it was the poor dog who always got blamed for eating one's homework when I was a kid. But now, the sky's the limit. Maybe it was an alien, or a fire-breathing dragon, or yes, even the mystical unicorn.   For most kids, imagination has no bounds, but as we grow up that fun wild part of us seems to get buried. It gets lost under the worries of adulthood. Pushed aside for grocery lists, bank balances, car repairs, career goals, and parenting concerns. But once in a while, when we sit still and let our imagination rise to the surface again, we can be transported anywhere we want to go.   Encouraging our kids to use their imaginations will create better scientists, engineers, teachers, doctors, innovators, artists, parents and people.   Hope and dreams live in imagination. Let them soar. Julia is a mother of three (for a while three-under-three) who provide her with daily inspirations and just a few frustrations. She's traveled the world and has lived in five different countries with Egypt as one of her favorites. Julia is eternally grateful to her supportive husband and the cats who share her desk space. She has authored ten children's books and can't see stopping anytime soon and admits that she often writes and edits while sitting in a minivan. Miro always loved drawing but it took a while before she attempted it as a career. After getting her masters degree in electronics, she worked for a few years in that field and at night would study illustration tutorials and read graphic design books. Then she was offered a position as a graphic designer in a small company. Since then, she's pursued a graphic design degree while raising two kids and moving countries. She has illustrated several books, including her own.