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Not a Box

Antoinette Portis

Reader Score

85%

85% of readers

recommend this book

Nominee:Nevada Young Readers' Award -Picture Book (2009)
Nominee:Georgia Children's Book Award -Picture Storybook (2009)

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A 2026 Phoenix Picture Book Award Winner!

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!

Book Details

  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish Date: Dec 12nd, 2006
  • Pages: 32
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.43in - 9.09in - 0.36in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9780061123221
  • Recommended age: 00-04
  • Categories: Imagination & PlayAnimals - RabbitsConcepts - Size & Shape

About the Author

Portis, Antoinette: -

Antoinette Portis is the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Not a Box (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book), Not a Stick, A Penguin Story (also chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and many more books for children. She attended the UCLA School of Fine Arts and is a former creative director at Disney. Antoinette lives in Southern California.