Good Reads

Here are two great reads, Not a Stick and Not a Box both by Antoinette Portis.  In each book an ordinary object is turned into many different things using the character's imagination. Most children do this sort of thing automatically, using boxes as cars and houses or sticks as fishing poles and magic wands. The technical term for this is "suspended disbelief". These books will have your children guessing what the character will imagine next and may just give them a few ideas of what to do with that empty box in the basement!