What To Do With a Box

I don’t know what is better, the story, or the illustrations. Both are fun, magical, and full of imagination. The artist does do well with incorporating his soft style of art with a compleastly real looking box. The boxes even contain lifelike shipping and sorting labels. The story is a sweet rhyme about all the things a box can be in the hands of imaginative children. A time of a simple love of the creative that is contained within these pages works perfectly for any reader.
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Hearken back to childhood days when a large box became the joy for many hours as neighborhood kids slid down a long summer hill. If I close my eyes, I can hear the laughter. Dizzy from tumbling down, down and round, round, round still, we took turns walking back up the hill and climbing in the cardboard home.

The author captures these moments, are more. This book is hot of the press and recently published. The illustrations are incredible!

The illustrations (painted cardboard boxes) are so nicely done, but I didn't like how the rhyming text was split up on the pages. You either got to take in the pictures and the text lost the rhythm/rhyme, or you turned pages too fast to really appreciate the illustrations.

This book is written in poetic format. The cover of the book is detailed with packing tape, a wrip int he corner of the cardboard, and a postage stamp. The book illustrates the beauty of a child's imagination and the things they imagine a simple box can be.

The children get a cardboard box. Their imaginations run wild as they use the box as a castle, a quiet reading spot, race cars, and much more!

Picked this book up for my nephew that likes boxes. It's a board book that opens in various directions and can ultimately shape a box. I'm still unsure just what order to read the "pages" in, but it doesn't seem to do much harm to the narrative about what fun things you can do with a box. The pages and illustrations are decorated with standard box shipping labels and writing so the boards themselves also resemble the sides of a box.

This book is about a box. The story is told about all the things a box can be/ be used for; a library, a nook, a palace, a place for your imagination to run free. I like this book because it shows kids that we can do so many things with a box, that we might not have seen at first. I would use this paired with part of the Kade’s Carnival videos to teach kids about upcycling/ recycling. Kids can learn that the sky is the limit and that we can be creative with things in so many different ways. Then I would give them all a box and some supplies and ask them to create something with their box and we would look at what different things everyone decided to create.

This book is a great way to introduce students to poetry. This book discusses all the things that imagination can help you with, and all the possibilities that it brings, even with just a box. I would love to bring this book out on a day that my students can't go outside because it is raining,