如果你可以创造一个世界，那你会创造什么样的世界？你会建一座石砖房子吗，还是果冻房子？它是在地上呢，还是在树上？你的商店会卖信封和糖果呢，还是鞋子和超级英雄？你会开着火车进城呢，还是骑着恐龙？

本书带着读者来一场非凡想象力的世界视觉之旅，获奖插画家-劳拉·卡林鼓励孩子们去看，去画和创作生活，然后通过想象力去分享他们自己的创作过程和插画技术的想法。记录着每一天，从早上起来，到晚上上床睡觉。劳拉把她记录的每一天所发生的事情都记录在本子上给到孩子们看。然后促使他们通过她狂野和幽默的想象力去帮助孩子形成自己的世界视觉，并从绘画中找到乐趣，每天都制作新作品。

If you were creating a world of your own, what would it look like? Would you build your house out of brick - or out of jelly? Would it be on the ground or in a tree? Would your shops sell envelopes and sweets - or shoes for superheroes? Would you ride a train to town, or a dinosaur? Taking the reader on an extraordinary visual journey through her imaginative world, award-winning illustrator, Laura Carlin, inspires children to look, draw and make - first from life, and then from the imagination through sharing her own personal thought-processes and drawing techniques. Using the narrative of a day - from getting up in the morning, to going to bed at night - Laura shows children how she records every day things and events on paper, and then improves them through her wild and witty imagination - helping children form a visual manifesto of their own world, and enthusing them to find enjoyment and entertainment in drawing and creating with the most everyday objects.

Laura Carlin studied at the Royal College of Art, and won several awards including the Quentin Blake Award two years running, and the National Magazine Award. She also received the Uniqlo Fashion Illustration Award in both 2003 and 2004, which enabled her to travel to Shanghai and Tokyo. A prolific drawer and painter, she also works on ceramics. Laura currently works in an advisory role with the development of Quentin Blake's House of Illustration. She is also a regular visiting lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone. As a commercial illustrator, Laura's work has featured in publications such as Vogue, The New Scientist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. She has also illustrated several children's books and was voted in 2009 an ADC Young Gun, one of the 50 most influential creatives under 30 years of age. She is also the winner of the prestigious 2011 V&A Illustration Award.