Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Looking for the name of a children's book, 2 kids playing with a refrigerator box?

I remembered this book recently but I don't know what it was called. A brother and sister get to play with the box from the refrigerator that their parents had just purchased. It follows the different things they did with the box as it started to fall apart. It was for fairly young readers with pictures and print on all the pages (as I remember, its been many years now).


Anyone remember this book?

Looking for the name of a children's book, 2 kids playing with a refrigerator box?
"Christina Katerina and The Box" by Patricia Lee Gauch


http://www.amazon.com/Christina-Katerina...


"A huge cardboard box becomes a castle, a clubhouse, a racing car and more for Christina and her friend Fats. In it they swear undying friendship, wage furious battles--and drive Christina's mother crazy. You won't believe how much fun a cardboard box can be! A gleeful little story of imaginative playenlivened by the delightful illustrations."





"At first, when Christina gets the box in which her mother's refrigerator was shipped, she turns it into a castle. After Fats Watson, her friend, decides to kick it over after she locks him in because he ate her fig newtons, she then turns it into a clubhouse. After Fats decides to sit on it and cave it in, she turns it into a race car. After he cuts off the nose to "check the engine", it collapses so Christina turns it into a dance floor of her summer mansion and she and Fats have a formal ball. Fats then decides to clean the floor, hoses it off and well, it melts. FINALLY, Christina's mother gets to take the box to the curb only in time for Fats to bring over two more boxes his mother's waser and dryer came in to be set up as boats in the front yard. Christina's mother is quite dismayed at the paper boxes in the yard but it's quite cute how Christina comes up with a new use for the box each time it is destroyed."
Reply:is it "jack and the boubou"?


or


"home alone and the fridge"


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