Your Imagination Presents uses an innovative combination of storytelling techniques to create an exciting environment that fosters a child’s imagination and creativity. 

The other characters encourage you to be a part of the unfolding action, making suggestions to the listener such as: “Show them we come in peace” or “Why don’t you decide which way to go?” The music and the other characters’ reactions continue to reinforce this feeling of “belonging” in the adventure.  By being actively involved in the plot, things come to exciting life for you in a way they couldn’t if you were sitting passively reading a story or watching a television show.

Your Imagination Presents uses a child’s imagination to bring the tales to visual life. The stories are visually stimulating, but not visually specific.  For example, you might be crossing a bridge over a canyon, but what the bridge and canyon look like are entirely up to you.  The dialogue helps your imagination provide the visual, such as when one of your astronaut crewmates says, “That's sure a mysterious-looking world.  It’s not anything like our Earth! What's that over there?  And there?”

While you’re listening to, talking with, and helping out the other characters in the story, you can decide what things look, sound, feel, smell, and taste like.  And each time you listen, you can climb, fly, solve problems, answer questions, and act out the adventures in different ways!  By avoiding a nonstop flow of detailed information, Your Imagination Presents sweeps you up in its fast-moving action.

Your Imagination Presents poses open-ended questions that the child can try to answer either during the adventure or after the listening session. Whether one of your fellow adventurers asks: “I wonder if we’ve discovered a new species?” or “Do you think those clouds are man-made?” many questions remain unanswered, allowing children to try to fill in the blanks in whatever manner they’d like. These questions can also be used after storytime to help a child develop critical thinking skills, by taking the story’s various plot points and drawing conclusions from them.

Instead of using songs with predetermined lyrics, Your Imagination Presents features continuous dramatic music to help carry your child along on these exciting journeys, the way a motion picture soundtrack weaves its spell on you while you’re immersed in your favorite movie. The subtleties in composition and orchestration lend themselves to repeated listening, inspiring new images, actions, and ideas all the time. By using music in this fashion, each child will “see” the action in his mind different from everyone else.

Even the sound effects, such as deadly rays being fired by a futuristic weapon, are created musically, helping to keep the child immersed in the creative action.  Footsteps and wind don’t sound the way they normally do, because the listener isn’t supposed to imagine such things in a familiar way, but rather to picture them in new and different ways.

Each Your Imagination Presents CD comes with an illustrated Creativity Booklet, with thinking and drawing exercises to further stimulate the imagination rather than to try to elicit predetermined answers from children.

There are many times when society tells a child that he is “wrong.”  While children need to be taught that there are correct and incorrect ways of doing many things, too much criticism can stunt a child’s imagination and creativity.  With Your Imagination Presents, there’s no limit to what a child can envision, and the positive reinforcement from the other characters can help foster a child’s confidence and self-esteem, so important at this stage of development.  So, while children might excel or fail at other things in life, Your Imagination Presents allows them a safe haven where they can succeed in their very own way every single time.

Besides being a lot of fun for the child to experience at home or on car trips, the unique way Your Imagination Presents tells a tale makes it a wonderful aid for teachers, drama coaches, and child therapists.  Best of all, it stimulates a child’s imagination, which can serve as the first step in a series of exercises (drawing, writing, story-telling, role-playing, etc.) for parents to help bring out what’s really special and unique about their own child.

With a child’s imagination, anything is possible!

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