This is one of the more literate and cool crowds when it comes to books so I figured I would check here. I am in my late 30's and remember a book from I think the 60's or 70's that I want to read to my littlest ones (a 6 and a soon to be born one).
It isn't much of a "story" but it basically is about a little kid whose mom throws out a giant refrigerator box. In one scene he makes it into a cool race car. Mom then drags it to the curb and throws it back out. He drags it back and makes it into a jail. She throws out, repeat. He basically makes all these cool things by cutting and drawing and re-using an old refrigerator box. I used to read it daily as a wee lad and dreamed of the day that my parents would get a new fridge. We would steal these old boxes like crazy when anyone in the neighborhood threw one out, too.
Anyway, I searched through Amazon and my local library with no luck. Any ideas? Anyone remember it?
Any help appreciated!!
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Woohoo!! Thanks! That was fast. I think I kept using "refrigerator" and not "box." Ugh. Thanks a bunch. Very excited!
Ciao!
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Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Oh wow, I remember my first grade teacher reading that to us.
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
I LOVE that book! I had entirely forgotten about it. Thank you so much for reminding me!
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Hmm. That kid needs a new mom. KrabbyPatty used to go the appliance store to get giant empty boxes for us to play in.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Segue to what was your favorite childhood book? Mine was Winne the Pooh.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
I got the same book over and over from the library, every time it was available: Spots are Special. It was about a boy who gets chicken pox, and his sister keeps telling him she's glad she doesn't have spots, and he keeps telling her "spots are special!" Every time she comes into his room he's pretending to be something else with spots ... a leopard, a giraffe, a bullfrog. I loved the illustrations.
I don't know what it was about that book that made me love it so much ... but I still have parts of it memorized!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I had a giant refrigerator box when I was a child. We called it "The Box", just like that kid. It was a store, it was a house. It was awesome.
Parents: The best present you can ever give to your child is a refrigerator box.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:I got the same book over and over from the library, every time it was available: Spots are Special.
For us, it was The Tailypo. "Tailypo, tailypo, give me back my tailypo!" Oooh, we loved it.
I think it creeped my mom out. But we got it out every time we could.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(We had a refrigerator box, too. But I've never read that book. )
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
I liked a different book about a big box, but I can't remember its title either. There were no words. Anyone remember that one?
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