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 Not a Box - Antoinette Portis
 Not a Box - Antoinette Portis ... Children's BooksNewest Review: ... in the dialogue, keeps asking silly questions of the Why are you wearing a box? type, while the child maintains that, ... more ... obviously, it's not a box. It's a space ship, a car, a burning tower block, a robot suit, a balloon, and a countless other things. In fact, it's simply a Not-A-Box.
Not-A-Box is a great little concept book for small children and their parents. It celebrates the power of imagination and ingenuity that allows children to use the most mundane of objects to create their own scenes and worlds and act out stories. It's also funny and a pleasure to handle and look at.
The book has a carefully thought out, minimalist design whi...more |
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Not a Box - Antoinette Portis: Not a Dud (340 words)
by - written on 19/09/09 (Very useful, 8 readings)
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Not-A-Box looks - like a box. It's got brown cardboardy cover and is even imprinted with 'This Way Up' and a net weight. Inside, in a minimalist palette of black and red on white, red yellow and brown pages, there is a story of a minimalist-Miffy-like child bunny who, as many a human child, loved sitting in boxes, hiding in boxes and wearing boxes. An exasperated mother, appearing only as a disembodied voice in the dialogue, keeps asking silly questions of the Why are you wearing a box? type, while the child maintains that, obviously, it's not a box. It's a space ship, a car, a burning tower block, a robot suit, a balloon, and a countless other things. In ... Read the complete review
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