We bought this at the my daughter’s school’s
PTA book fair, and read it at bedtime a few nights ago. As we just moved, and have tons of cardboard
boxes, I thought it was a timely read!
Illustrator: Paige Billin-Frye
Publisher: Children’s Press
Series: Rookie Readers
Prices: Library Binding – 13.95, Paperback - $4.99
Reading level: 5 to 9 years
Interest level: Lower Grades
Physical Characteristics: 6 x 7 inches, 32 pages
ISBN: 0516261533
Genres: Children’s Fiction
Subjects:
Dress
up and Make-believe
Creativity
and Imagination
Siblings
Annotation:
Two children rescue a cardboard box from the trash, and adventure begins.
Summary:
A mother throws a very large cardboard box away, saying that it is junk. Her two children see it as something much more. First the kids pretend that the box is a cave and they are bears. Then the box is both a car. The cut some windows and make the box a house. Then, they tear more pieces away and make it a cage. After the kids tear away parts and cut out windows the box does look like junk. But they use their imagination and turn the remaining shreds into jewelry, a crown and a sword.
As any parent knows, the box is sometimes the best part of any present. Kids with their unending imaginations do not just see a box. Instead, they see possibilities for creative play. This book captures that idea in four little vignettes. In each they show the kids in reality, making the box into different objects and then they have a dream page, showing what the kids see in their vast imaginations. As someone who just had to move, it was very comforting to read this book with my daughter. It made me feel a bit less guilty about uprooting her and inspired her to do her own box play. A win-win situation.
Similar Titles or Authors:
A Box Story by Kenneth Kit Lamug
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
Sitting in my Box by Dee Lillegard
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/box-can-be-many-things
http://www.danameachenrau.com/
http://www.paigebillinfrye.com/
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