Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163585 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Review
"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

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Much like a cardboard box: refreshingly simple and a lot of fun.
Packaged like a brown cardboard box, with a weight on the front and `this side up arrows' on the back, this book is incredibly clear and simple, and equally successful for all its simplicity. Very brief timeless text on the left hand pages is accompanied by childish pictures (think Miffy with softer lines) on the right hand, portraying the a rabbit and his box. And overlaid in red, where appropriate, is the shape the box is taking in the rabbit's imagination. For example, on the first page the question is asked "Why are you sitting in a box" [black and white picture of rabbit in box] and over the page, the text reads "It's not a box" and in red we see rabbit's racing car. And so on. Rabbit uses the box for many adventures as a hot-air balloon, an elephant, a robot, and each time the child reader will enjoy describing how the not-a-box is being used this time. Charming, eye-catching in its sparsity and suitable from about a year.

Best children's book around
This book is so simple and spot-on! My four year old loves this book and can really relate to a box being SOOOOO much more than just a box! It is clearly written by an author who knows the inner workings of a child's imagination. This is a book for all children who have pretended that a box is a car/boat/house/robot/etc.

Love it!
This book perfectly captures the magic that can only occur when a small child is given a large box and left to use their own imagination.

Lovely, simple drawings are the only answers to the "what is it?" question on each page, leaving children to fill in the words themselves.

Wonderful book. Can't wait to read "Not a Stick" :)