- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007254792
- ISBN-13: 978-0007254798
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 23 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 635,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“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
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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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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" :)
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" :)
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Just pictures of a box
Was hoping for something a little more than what it was. Just pictures really. It's a bit cute but not much more.
Published 3 months ago by David Todd
Clever Idea, Poorly Executed
Don't get me wrong, this is a very clever idea, looking at things from the childs viewpoint, a box is anything you want it to be but the book is so dull. Read more
Published 4 months ago by TinTin
not a box review
I asked my Year 2 class if they had ever played in a big box and pretended it was something else. They came up with all sorts of wonderful ideas ranging from a pirate ship to a... Read more
Published 7 months ago by carol northall
beautiful inspirational reassuring - buy it
I bought this book on a whim, partly because xmas shopping for a small boy made me wonder whether just a cardboard box would be adequate as a pressie! Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2010 by A. Reader
A good idea, but...
I bought this book after reading a good review in, I think, the 'New Statesman', as a present for my two-year-old grandson. I liked the book, but he doesn't very much. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2009 by Dr. P. M. Stoneman
Perfect for a small child
My just-over-2-years-old nephew has mastered the art of disputing a point by simply saying "It's not ..." whatever it's not repeatedly. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2007 by S. J. Binnie
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