Imaginativa and the Painted Polish Village

The story

Imaginativa has the biggest imagination in Goop World, and anything she pictures can come to life. Showing Matho her binoculars and a paintbrush, she paints a little blue door in the air and walks right through it.

She steps into the painted village of Zalipie, Poland, where flowers cover every house and a painted sunflower can talk. But one wall is completely blank, and when she stops in front of it, her feet begin to sink.

The real place: Zalipie, Poland

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

1. 1More than 100 years ago, women in Zalipie began painting flowers on their homes to cover black soot from their stoves.
2. 2Today flowers are painted on houses, wells, fences, barns and even doghouses all over the village.
3. 3Every year since 1948, Zalipie has held a contest for the most beautifully painted cottage.

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