Children’s books author Antoinette Portis has recently written a delightfully creative pair of books entitled “Not a Stick,” and “Not a Box.” For me, these books, invoke a nostalgic look back to childhood where the simplest inanimate objects could be greater and more entertaining than latest Chinese-made poison toy; something that I think younger generations have lost growing up in western capitalist culture.Each page shows a illustration of the bunny either holding a stick or with a box on his head in a seemingly irrelevant pose. With the reader turns the page, they discover the imagination has turns the box into things like a burning building, a race car or a robot suit and the stick into a horse or in my favorite instance, a paint brush to paint Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night.

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