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Not A Box


School year: Year 1, Year 2

No. of pages 32

Published: 2008

Great for age 3-8 years

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A beautifully designed book, celebrating the power of the imagination to transform even the most ordinary of objects into something magical. A box is just a box unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by the memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her brother, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill of when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes reality. Her simple, spare text and illustrations show that seeing truly depends on the ability to believe in the possibilities.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 1-3 years.

There are 32 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2008 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Antoinette Portis attended the UCLA School of Fine Arts and is a former creative director at Disney Consumer Products. She lives in Studio City, California, USA.

 

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Geisel Medal
This book was recognised by the Geisel Medal.

Georgia Children's Book Award - Picture Book
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Georgia Children's Book Award.

Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award - Grades Prek-1
This book was recognised in the Grades Prek-1 category of the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award.

Nevada Young Readers' Award - Picture Book
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Nevada Young Readers' Award.

Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award
This book was recognised by the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award.

"Dedicated `to children everywhere sitting cardboard boxes', this wonderful little book perfectly captures the amazing capacity of a child's imagination to create endless possibilities out of a humble box. Brilliantly illustrated with a cute bunny (bearing a passing homage to the graphic minimalism of Duck Bruna's Miffy), the box becomes all manner of wonderful things, from a rocketship to a hot-air balloon - anything but a plain old cardboard box. A super book that's as close to perfection as a picture book can get!" Junior

"Simple and appealing... Nicely packaged in a cardboard cover, it looks like a kids' classic in the making." Time Out

"A stylish paean to the imagination for two- to four-year-olds." Financial Times Magazine

"This fashionably simple book has Rabbit encouraging young children to explore imaginary worlds whilst sitting in a cardboard box - on land or water or up into space. Great fun." Carousel

"The adorable story of Rabbit and imaginative world within a simple cardboard box." Practical Parenting