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4.0 out of 5 starsBedtime Story-Not A Box
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014
Bedtime Story-Not A Box
What a wonderful and imaginative story. Prefect for his grade level too. One line repetition though out the book.
He was VERY excited about this book.... Lots of discussion while being read to.
I remember the lure of a box, especially those wonderfully long refridgerator sized boxes. This book evokes that magic of the imagination. Even the cover of the book mimics it. It is brown paper with no dust jacket, on the front it proclaims in weight in oz. On the back a red arrow points out "this end up".
As the story opens and the reader flips through the publication and title page, a small bunny spots and tugs away a box that it has found. Now we see the bunny sitting quietly within his treasure as someone (perhaps the reader) asks, "Why are sitting in a box?"
A turn of the page and it's the same bunny in the same box, but now red lines have appeared around them to sketch out a fabulous racing car.
The opposite page is now bright red and at the bottom of it sit the words, "It's not a box."
Turn the page and now the bunny is standing on top of the box.
When asked why, the red lines have turned the box into an alpine peak with the bunny at the crest of the summit. "It's not a box.”
Grade Level: Preschool - 1
Board book: 28 pages
Publisher: HarperFestival; Brdbk edition (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
