The Imagination Warriors

by Marc Romanelli, Odessa Sawyer (Illustrator), David Romanelli (Illustrator), Ann Mason (Editor), Ellen Kleiner (Editor)

Overview

Daisy May is a special cat. Not only can she talk, but she also has the gift of precognition. Although she leads a comfortable life in New York City, she feels unfulfilled. When her owner's 9-year-old grand-daughter, Philomena, invites her to come to Lamy, New Mexico to investigate a mystery, the cat decides to put her psychic powers to good use. Philomena is an adventurous, independent child whose paleontologist father is often away from home. She's been keeping watch on a painting of a Native American man that hangs in a Lamy saloon, whose details, such as the number of teepees in the background, have been changing. She takes Daisy May to meet her artist friend, Noshi, whose latest work, an image of a Native American princess, has been similarly mutable. Daisy May, Philomena, and Noshi declare themselves to be "Imagination Warriors," and they find that they're able to use the power of thought to enter Noshi's painting; inside, they find conduits to other pictures and paths to other places and times. But will they ever figure out what's going on with the pictures, and make their way home?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161913956
Publisher:	Little Roman Press
Publication date:	09/30/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 MB
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Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Marc grew up in a uniquely bohemian household on the upper Westside of Manhattan in the mid 1950's. His father was a writer and educator, and his mother, an artist. He distinctly remembers their tiny apartment being a mecca for actors, poets, and artists of the day. This was the wonderfully fertile environment in which he grew up, preciously silent and still decades before the "I" of everything digital.

Mr. Romanelli went on to become a professional photographer and cinematographer in his adult life. He has traveled widely, photographing in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Mexico, Europe and India. He has worked with diverse talents such as, Wynton Marsalis and his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Randy Travis and the famous dancer, Ann Reinking. He has had a life long fascination with the concept of time travel and portals accessing alternate realities. Some of his favorite movies growing up were, “This Island Earth,” ”Forbidden Planet” and “2001 A Space Odyssey.” After a lifelong immersion in the photographic discipline, where pursuing “the image” took precedence over any other possible creative endeavor, he decided to begin again, change gears and attempt to craft the written word to tell his stories as well. The process of this transition has been profound for him. In essence, he organically began to understand the value and crucial importance of the power of imagination and the attendant discipline and commitment of nurturing it. He now believes that we as a society have a collective “Imagination Deficit Disorder” as we increasingly allow the intrusion of digital media’s all encompassing reach and power to crowd out and ultimately eclipse our native thought and imagination. “Drinking from the fire hose” is an apt description of where we’ve all arrived unfortunately, but another alternative is also presented to those that avail themselves of it. While writing this first book, he was necessarily forced to slow down and receive. Organically, solutions, answers, options and ideas as they related to his book in progress gradually became apparent and in some cases revelatory.

He resides with his muses, his wife Ahdina and their two children, Philomena and Redford in the little western village of Lamy, New Mexico. This is Mr. Romanelli’s first book.

Editorial Reviews

A young girl living in New Mexico discovers that her quiet desert village is the epicenter of bizarre time distortions that reach all the way back to the Renaissance. Nine-year-old Philomena, confident and independent, teams up with her grandmother's psychic cat to solve a series of mysteries involving strange paintings. Their investigations take them across time and space to worlds powered solely by imagination.

Kirkus Reviews