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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!!
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Hmm. That kid needs a new mom. KrabbyPatty used to go the appliance store to get giant empty boxes for us to play in.
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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!
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