Not a Box
By Antoinette Portis
This little book brings the imagination to life in a big way. It has won endless honors including the ALA Theodor Geisel Honor Book, A New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 2007, and has sat on top of the New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Seller Lists. The book has been translated into dozens of different languages and has a place on store shelves all over the world. The author Antoinette Portis creates a world of imagination in the simple line drawings and five colors of Not a Box.
In Not a Box a little rabbit defends his imagination each time the narrator wonders what he is doing with what appears to be a box. But it is NOT a box and there is no limit to what it is.
We really enjoyed this book. The text is repetitive and simple which allowed my daughter, who is at the beginning stages of learning, to read most of it own her own. The illustrations are simple yet so effective in getting the message of the story across. Our whole family loved it and it will become a staple in our house. I imagine it will soon find its place among the ranks of Go Dog Go and Good Night Moon and Where the Wild Things Are on the required reading list of childhood.
We read this book as part of our #365in2018 where as a family we plan on reading 365 books together in 2018. You can find more about our effort here. You can also find all of our book reviews in our Book Review Guide.
