When their family moves to a farm, Luke, Ellie, and Joey find an old car in the shed.  Too busy to take it to the dump, their dad moves it out under a tree and tells the kids they can play with it “for the time being.”  The car is transformed through imagination and creative play into a sailing ship, vehicle for the queen in a parade, a Mount Everest basecamp and more.  When the farm’s previous owner comes to visit, the children are concerned about the car’s deteriorating condition, but Mrs. Crosby just “smiled and smiled.”  Over tea she shares stories and pictures of all that the car had been for her.  To the children, her stories are just as amazing as the ones their imaginations had created.  Told in first person, this lovely book shows that stories and imagination transcend generations.