Now Open the Box (New York Review Children's Collection) - Hardcover

Dorothy Kunhardt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590177088 ISBN 13: 9781590177082

Publisher: NYRB Children's Collection, 2013

Synopsis

Now Open the Box Peewee's in the box! Peewee the dog doesn't know any tricks, "not a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everybody loves him," the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the huge tall giant, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephants, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. But then something unexpected happens that threatens to bring Peewee's time under the Big Top to an end. "Now Open the Box" is a beautiful example of the art of Dorothy Kunhardt, the author of the timeless classic "Pat the Bunny" and the pioneering picture book ...

About this title

Review:

"What is amazing about Now Open the Box is how fresh it feels today ... A boldly told, wayward tale."

(The Observer)

"A page turner, as much fun for parents as for children, with simple but irresistible illustrations."

--(Country Life)

With Dorothy Kunhardt, words come to the fore, words running on and piling up and repeating themselves, stopping only to put a question WRONG! then rushing on again until the listener, on tenterhooks, can stand it no longer.

--(Barbara Bader, American Picturebooks from Noah s Ark to The Beast Within)

For Dorothy Kunhardt a children s book was nothing more or less than a way to talk to children. And if along the way the pages of the book had to float in a bath, had to squeak, had to bounce, had to light up, had to change color, had to feel furry or be in the shape of a snake or an elephant for feeling under the covers, if the book had to have a lock on it, a hole through it, a smell all its own, even if the book had to be eaten, that was O.K. because that was all part of the delight.

 

 

 

--(The New York Times)

About the Author:

DOROTHY KUNHARDT (1901 1979) was an influential author of books designed for small children, best known for her interactive Pat the Bunny (1940), the bestselling American children s book of all time and the second-bestselling children s book in the United States after Beatrix Potter s The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Her first book, Junket Is Nice, appeared in 1933 and was soon followed by other children s classics, including Now Open the Box, Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather, Brave Mr. Buckingham, and Tiny Animal Stories. Kunhardt wrote nearly fifty books in all, including (with her son, Philip B. Kunhardt Jr.) Twenty Days, an account of the aftermath of Lincoln s assassination, and several other historical works about nineteenth-century America.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Children's Collection
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1590177088
• ISBN 13: 9781590177082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72