Emily's Runaway Imagination


Emily's Runaway Imagination is a children's novel by American writer Beverly Cleary, first published in 1961. Set in the 1920s, the plot revolves around the experiences of a young, imaginative girl named Emily.

Plot

Emily is a young girl noteworthy throughout her hometown of Pitchfork, Oregon for her great imagination and for the predicaments she inadvertently manages to create, such as intoxicating her father's pigs by feeding them rotten apples to avoid a chiding from her mother for wasting food, using Clorox to bleach a plow horse white to impress a visiting cousin, and humiliating herself publicly by correcting the language of a Chinese neighbor after he mispronounces the name of her pet collie.