2008 Winner

Not a Box
by Antoinette Portis.
New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

 

Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.