Playtime With Izzy
Published on 20. March 2025
Book
Hardback
38 pages
978-1-966025-00-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Playtime with Izzy" introduces a girl whose world is limited only by her imagination. One moment she is running a restaurant dealing with finicky eaters, the next she is a doctor fixing broken unicorn horns. Her stuffed animals are her customers and patients. Izzy doesn't notice, but there is a mouse in the house watching her play. The mouse is peeking out from behind doors and pillows just to see how Izzy plays. The mouse notices that something is missing and just might be able to help Izzy's dream of having a friend to play with, come true.
Marina Saumell's illustrations bring Izzy and her playmates to life in stunning color and detail. "Playtime with Izzy" is a book about imagination, family friendship, and the start of a big adventure.
"Playtime with Izzy" is the first book in The Imaginary Friend Chronicles. The series follows Izzy as she discovers her imaginary friend, Rose. She meets Alsie, and they discover Izzy can see everyone's imaginary friend. Book 4 finds Doctor Izzy helping Alsie's imaginary friend, Dragon with a little fire-breathing problem. The summer passes by and Izzy and Alsie go to school. There they find a lot of lost and forgotten imaginary friends looking for a new child to be friends with. They discover that school is not a good place for lost and forgotten imaginary friends to hang out and have to find another place for Izzy to match them with new children. In book 6 word gets out to the other lost and forgotten imaginary friends and they are all coming to Izzy's house. Too many for Izzy to handle alone. Izzy learns that all imaginary friends come from a magic world called Imagicity and has to find a way to get Alsie to help with the matching process. Book 7 finds Izzy and Alsie transported to Imagicity, a place where imaginary friends learn how to be anything that a child would want in an imaginary friend. In the end, Izzy discovers a little girl can have a big impact, with a little help from her friends.
The Imaginary Friends Chronicles
Book 1 - Playtime with Izzy
Book 2 - Izzy and Her Imaginary Friend
Book 3 - Izzy, Alsie and Their Imaginary Friends
Book 4 - Izzy and Dragon's Breath
Book 5 - Izzy and Alsie Go to School
Book 6 - Izzy and the Magic Glasses
Book 7 - Izzy and the School for Imaginary Friends
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Series
Language
English
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 8 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-966025-00-9 (9781966025009)
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When I was in kindergarten, my teacher sent me home with a note. It said, "David has explored everything, but his head is always in the clouds." I guess I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I started writing in high school. My diaries are filled with daily activities, and the occasional poem or short story. An early English major at West Virginia University, I moved on to Business and pursued a career in Banking. The entries all but stopped. New inspiration came with the birth of my three children, and the diaries filled up. The kids became an endless source of stories. Stories of triumph, humor, and sometimes sadness. As they grew to adulthood, once again, the diary entries slowed to a trickle. Now in retirement, I've found the time to reflect on the wonder and imagination of children, to see the beauty of family and friends, and to fulfill a dream of becoming an author. My son said, "You usually don't find the words imaginative and banker in the same sentence, but there are exceptions to every rule."