Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Title: A Box Can Be Many Things
Illustrator: Paige Billin-Frye
Publisher: Children’s Press
Year: 1997
Format: Paperback
Genre: Easy-to-Read
Reading Level: Emergent
Interest-Level: Elementary
Topics: Boxes, Children, Imagination
Summary: Two children find adventure in a cardboard box after their mom throws it away. From pretending it’s a bears cave to a house children will fit right in, imagining what a box could be.
Extension Activities:
-Bring in an assortment of different sized boxes. Let each student pick out one box. Let them go wild and create whatever they want out of the box. Once they finish have them each present their “box” to the class and explain what it is.
