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Not A Stick [Paperback]

Antoinette Portis
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  • Paperback: 32 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks (25 Jun 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007254822
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007254828
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 22.4 x 0.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Praise for Not a Box:

“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 stick is just a stick… unless it's not a stick. From fishing rod to dragon-taming sword a small pig shows that a stick will go as far as the imagination allows.

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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Not a stick 10 Jan 2010
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A wonderful book with simplistic pictures that draw you in because the picture looks child friendly as though a child could do it! The journey of the story opens up a child imagination and starts the 'thinking process' that opens up the world of 'it can be whatever YOU want it to be'. So delightful the idea makes you think 'why didnt I think about writing this book'. Enjoy!
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I love this book! And, even more importantly, so does my 2.5 year old daughter!

When we first bought it I was sceptical, I didn't know quite how to approach it with her, and thought it might be a bit too abstract. However, like the stick, it's what you make it! Each two double page spread pages are related, so on set one you'll get an image of the pig holding the stick, and the adult's perspective, of 'watch where you point that stick" etc. On the next double page you'll see the child's response "This is not a stick" or likewise, and overlayed on the original image a picture of what the child is imagining, in that case the stick is a paintbrush and he's painting a Van Gough! We read through it several times before bed, making up extra lines or discussing what's happening. She loves pointing to where the stick is in the imagination images, and we've even made up stories about the games the pig is playing, in particular the one at the end with a wonderful dragon!

This is a total joy read, explore and discuss, I've just ordered Not a Box and I'm really looking forward to reading that one too!
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This is a really lovely book. Along with "Not a Box" I've read it to lots of children who love it. Its very simple images and children love to guess what the pig is pretending the stick is. I think its clever too - so many adults are so quick to utter the "put that down" comments without stopping to understand and see what the child might really be doing. Children seem to really appreciate that this book understands that a stick can be so many different things...
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