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Milo Imagines the World

From the book by Matt de la Peña. Illustrated by Christian Robinson.

Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

Book by Terry Guest. Music by Christian Magby. Lyrics by Christian Albright.

A JOINT COMMISSION BY THE ROSE THEATER (OMAHA, NEBRASKA) AND CHILDREN’S THEATRE COMPANY (MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA)

“It makes the ants in my tummy chill out.
I can take whatever is going on in the world and make it better and I don’t need a fancy job or a million-billion dollars.
All I need is a pencil, a piece of paper and my imagination.
Pretty cool right?”

Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives. There’s the boy in the suit with the bright white sneakers; Milo imagines him arriving home to a castle with a drawbridge and a butler. But when the boy in the suit gets off on the same stop as Milo—walking the same path, going to the exact same place—Milo realizes that you can’t really know anyone just by looking at them.