What To Do With a Box
What's This Book About
If you give a child a box, who can tell what will happen next? It may become a library or a boat. It could set the scene for a fairy tale or a wild expedition. The most wonderful thing is its seemingly endless capacity for magical adventure, a feature imaginatively captured in cardboardesque art by Chris Sheban and rhythmically celebrated in this poetic tribute by renowned children’s author Jane Yolen.
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Jane Yolen. I am such a fan! This is a terrific book outlining some of the clever ways one can play with a box. The rhyming text seems effortless and the illustrations are fantastic. I love the way some of the box's functional markings are incorporated into the illustrations. I could read this story again and again, that is, if we don't have a box around to have our own adventure.
I love how this book encourages creativity and imaginative play. This book doesn't have a lot of text, but I like that it's simple and shows how many different things you can do with a box.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Jane Yolen (hailed as the “Aesop of the twentieth century”) has written more than 350 books, won numerous awards, and received six honorary doctorates in literature. She lives outside Springfield, Massachusetts, where a bear really did visit her porch.
Chris Sheban has been awarded three gold and three silver medals by the Society of Illustrators. Some of the books he has illustrated are I Met a Dinosaur by Jan Wahl, Catching the Moon by Myla Goldberg, and What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen. He also illustrated Someone Like Me by Patricia MacLachlan, also published by Roaring Brook Press.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781568462899
- Publication Date
- March 8, 2016
- Publisher
- Creative Editions
- Original Publication Date
- February 1, 2016
- Page Count
- 32
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 3 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2015008269
- Lexile® Level
- AD450L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~M
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~3.1
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