- Published: 15 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781590177082
- Imprint: NY Review Childrens
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 72
- RRP: $36.00
Now Open the Box
- Published: 15 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781590177082
- Imprint: NY Review Childrens
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 72
- RRP: $36.00
"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.... Now Open the Box is about little Peewee, dear little Peewee the circus dog, who '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'.... Drawing or not, Dorothy Kunhardt had the right ideas." --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