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From Publishers Weekly A rainy day inspires a mind-bending adventure in Crews's (I'll Catch the Moon) latest photo-collage fantasy. Stuck inside due to inclement weather, Mariah and Joy embark on an imaginative journey. First destination on the map (which they've constructed on top of a checkerboard, with coins, buttons, seashells and checkers) is an imaginary tiny island. Without fanfare, the girls shrink to a size that allows them to fit right into their surroundings. A decorative mask in the room becomes a "giant," a houseplant is a jungle to be explored and the chubby gray cat is now a fierce monster guarding "treasures" (cat toys). A look through a kaleidoscope turns everything on end, and soon the girls are back to reality. The smoothly pitched text builds in excitement as the images and action begin to fully take shape in readers' minds. In her most complex project yet, Crews creates photographic compositions with inventive shifts in proportion and perspective and with playful technological tweaks that will have readers pondering, "how did she do that?" Her young African American subjects are wide-eyed and expressive and are clearly enjoying their outing. Ages 5-up. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From School Library Journal PreSchool-K-In this handsomely realized book, double-page, digitally created, full-color photo collages show two African-American girls creating a magical journey for themselves as they wait for the rain to stop outside. Their adventure map is a checkerboard dotted with foreign coins, shells, jacks, and buttons that trace a trip around an imaginary world. Shrinking to a tiny size, they fly their model wooden airplane to the fireplace mantle/island, then descend into a flower pot and down onto the floor to cope with a fierce monster (their gray cat). After peering through a kaleidoscope, they spin back to normal size and real life and find the sun shining and their mother waiting to take them to the park. The fun is in the imaginative and skillfully executed, computerized illustrations, which are tied together by a thin plot line.