"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child´s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. "
~Walter Scott

Children's Writing

Imagination: [im"agi'nation]

1. the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp. mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced

2. mental creative ability

3. the ability to deal resourcefully with unexpected or unusual problems, circumstances, etc

4. (in romantic literary criticism, esp. that of S. T. Coleridge) a creative act of perception that joins passive and active elements in thinking and imposes unity on the poetic material