Scribbles and Ink, Out of the Box

by Ethan Long

Overview

Scribbles the cat and Ink the mouse are buddies and fellow artists. In this adventure, the arrival of a box of cheese brings a yummy snack for Ink and an artistic opportunity for Scribbles-he loves the box! What can he make from it? Everything!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609056919
Publisher:	Blue Apple Books
Publication date:	07/01/2023
Series:	Scribbles and Ink
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.19(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Ethan Long is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 children's books, including Tickle the Duck!, One Drowsy Dragon, Chamelia, and Up, Tall and High!. He is also the creator of the Emmy nominated animated shorts series Tasty Time With ZeFronk. His website is www.ethanlong.com

Editorial Reviews

2014-01-15
Cardboard boxes may never seem dull again. Back from their last high-energy artistic adventure (The Contest, 2013), best friends Scribbles and Ink go to town with imaginative play, fighting and reconciling along the way. Ink, a mouse, places an online order. His package arrives moments later (thanks to "super speedy express delivery") in a plain, brown, cardboard box. Ink wants only the cheese inside; Scribbles, a cat uninterested in cheese, politely requests the box itself. In Scribbles' mind, the box could be anything from a sandbox or box kite (hee) to the Boxistar Galacticat. Fashioning the box into a pair of overalls, he models them for Ink, who feels a sudden burning need to try them on. Possessiveness and rivalry creep in; Ink employs some antagonistic cartoon physics—painting a hole on the floor, into which Scribbles falls—and a tug of war for the box rips it plumb in half. Of course they make up, and a "box-tastic…box-i-licious" feast ensues. The real star here is the box, which, whether plain or decorated or ripped or transformed, stands out as a rivetingly realistic photograph in a world that—except for Scribbles' pencils and Ink's brush—is otherwise entirely drawn and painted. Corrugated cardboard has never looked so alluring. The perfect choice for after a move or whenever boxes are handy. (Early reader. 5-8)

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