Books like Christina Katerina & the Box
By Patricia Lee Gauch
For the kid who turns every delivery box into something else entirely before the packing tape is even off, Christina Katerina is a hero already at work. Playful, scrappy, and full of makeshift wonder.
A young inventor imagines the ultimate car — complete with a snack bar, a swimming pool, and a robot chauffeur named Robert — then takes it out for a wild test drive with his dad.
A girl named Marian discovers a rocky desert hill across the road and transforms it with her sisters and friends into Roxaboxen — a whole imagined town built from stones, old boxes, and pure invention.
An endlessly imaginative girl transforms into robots, trees, and countless other characters through rhyming games, while her messy room and her mother's patience wait in the background.
A group of children build a snowman one winter's day and watch him come to life, sharing in the wonder and fun of a magical friend made of snow.
After a hurricane knocks down an old elm tree in their yard, two brothers discover the fallen tree becomes a gateway to imaginary worlds and adventures.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A little girl waits eagerly for a new hat from her favorite aunt, but when it arrives plain and ordinary, she sets out to make it beautiful herself.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
A curious kid heads outside to explore wind firsthand — feeling it push and pull, chasing hats, and figuring out why something you can't see is so easy to feel.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
A boy imagines a very special house — one built entirely from his own head — where a turtle, a dead mouse, and an old lion can all move in, and nobody ever says stop.
A boy named Lewis spends one wild day at his best friend Wilbur Robinson's house, where the whole eccentric family joins the hunt for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth.
