Scwigee is a dragon who is part turtle and part horse. He also happens to be 5-year old Max’s imaginary friend. Max first made this drawing of Scwigee when he was really young (even younger than 5): Then, he explained that Scwigee doesn’t really look like that. First, he’s orange. Second, he doesn’t have two heads. He drew two heads because at the time he really “liked electricity.” Below, Max drew a new head to explain how Scwigee’s head should really look: We sent those two

As a child, Charlotte Brontë, (best known for her novel Jane Eyre,) and her sisters and brother played with twelve wooden soldiers they called the “Young Men.” To record the adventures of these toy men, the children sewed scraps of paper into miniature books, some as small as two by one and a half inches — no bigger than an iPhone screen. Charlotte filled one tiny book with an adventure 3000 words long. Her minuscule handwriting was almost too small for a grown-up to read! #d

The “very stately and magnifick” imaginary library invented by Alcofribas Nasier (an anagram of François Rabelais) was called St. Victor, and found in Paris. Some of the imaginary works it contained were: The pomegranite of vice The trevet of good thoughts The hatchpot of hypocrites The bumsquibcracker of apothecaries The cobbled shoe of humility The History of the Hobgoblins The racket of swag waggers The shackles of Religion [Image by "Gustave Doré-L'Enfance de Gargantua”