Don't miss this wholly original celebration of the power of imagination, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. This picture book with its visual humor and simple dialogue is great for fans of Mo Willems and Crockett Johnson--and it's a thoughtful graduation gift for creative people of all ages.

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 a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real--when the imagination takes over inside a cardboard box, and through play, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.

After reading this book aloud, continue the fun by drawing shapes like a triangle or circle, and asking your child what the triangle is NOT

Author: Antoinette Portis
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 12/12/2006
Series: Not a Box
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.43h x 9.09w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780061123221
Audience: Baby-Preschool


Award: 2007 Geisel Medal (Dr. Seuss) Honor Book - Children's Literature
Award: 2009 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee - Picture Storybook
Award: 2009 Nevada Young Readers' Award Nominee - Picture Book
Award: 2008 Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Nominee - Picture Book


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/27/2006 pg. 49
New Yorker (The) 12/04/2006 pg. 93
Kirkus Review - Children 12/01/2006 pg. 1225
Booklist 12/01/2006 pg. 53
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2007 pg. 60
School Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 100
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 12 - Superior,Well Above Average
New York Times 04/15/2007 pg. 18

About the Author
Portis, Antoinette: -

Antoinette Portis is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Not a Box (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a 2007 Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book), Not a Stick, A Penguin Story (also chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and Kindergarten Diary. She attended the UCLA School of Fine Arts and is a former creative director at Disney. Antoinette lives in Southern California.