The Birthday Box

This is a wonderful toddler book that my 6 and 3 year old both enjoy. It captures childhood perfectly. The baby is all excited about the box he got for his birthday and has fun with the dog that happens to come in his birthday box. This is so true to life. I marvel every birthday how the kids are often more interested in the boxes than what's inside them. After reading this book, a large box arrived by UPS. My 3 year old asked me to cut arm holes and a hole where the face goes to make him a robot box, just like in the book. Wonderful!

My 2 year old LOVES all the Leslie Patricelli board books. He has almost all of them. However, I didn't like that this book wasn't a board book. So this means he can't sit and read/look at it by himself. The board books are perfect for little toddlers such as my son. He LOVES to read and be read to. The story is great and so are the illistrations. I just think it should have been a board book like the others. Leslie is a GREAT writer!!

Ms. Patricelli does a wonderful job of capturing the thoughts of toddlers and preschool age children. Her stories are adorable, and the artwork is well done. My daughter loves her books, and I don't mind reading them over and over again. This one is the first of her larger format books, as the rest are board books. I love when he climbs into the box! So cute!

We love all of Leslie Patricelli's books, so we pre-ordered this one, and it arrived on our son's first birthday. What a perfect gift! It was the first present he opened. Shortly thereafter, he opened a large box (as described in the book) and it was great to imagine the association (he's obviously too young to make the assocation himself). The story is simple, wonderful, and so apt for a little one. We've saved the wrapping paper (included -- so cool!) for a future big box on a future birthday. I can't wait.

Our two-year-old daughter LOVES this book and likes to sing "Happy Birthday" (her favorite song) to the baby character every time we read it, which is many, many times a week. There's a little surprise too, which she likes to pretend she does not know each time we read it. The story is very sweet, imaginative, and fun. It's a must-have.