by Alison McGhee
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Product Description
The simple playthings, the everyday moments, picking up that hundredth rock -- all of these are brimming with possibility...if you slow down and let the future begin with the small moments of today. Because everything depends on letting a little boy...be a little boy.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Our little boy loves it!!, 2008-12-10
Our little boy - 17 months old - loves the lilting prose and the lovely pictures of this book. He picks it out of his bookcase full of books nearly every night and begs for it to be read to him. The book follows one day of a little boy and uses familiar words - cup, dog, bug, truck, crackers - that he understands and responds to by pointing at the object in the illustration. And, of course, it lauds the best toy of all, the "big cardboard box"! Our little boy now repeats the word "box" each time the book mentions this amazing object.
I disagree with the reviewer who said it was difficult to read . . . just think William Carlos Williams and you will realize that this is a wonderful poem. "Little boy, so much depends on, your yellow cup, a seranade to wake you up, the sun that slants across the rug, the wings on that astonishing bug, AND your big cardboard box."
WONDERFUL!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
charming, 2008-07-08
This is a charming companion to SOMEDAY; although less tender and wistful. Hey, it's for the guys, after all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Baby gift, 2008-06-02
I purchased this title on a whim when a very dear friend of mine and his wife had their first child, a little boy. It just seemed right. I wasn't disappointed. It's a delightful story about a "little boy" and what's important to him. Of all his toys--the big cardboard box--and what parent doesn't understand that?
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Captured the joy of boys, 2008-06-02
Charming book that the mothers and fathers of boys should read and share with their growing sons.
6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
 not for children, 2008-05-13
This Father's Day, when a Hallmark just won't cut it but $20 seems like too much to spend, why not give this little gem?
Generously borrowing from William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow," each of the rhymed sections in this picture book begins with the phrase "Little Boy, so much depends on..." to inventory the innocent mischief, imaginative play, and rituals of what it means to be a boy. All that and a big cardboard box. Reynolds illustrations are as precious as McGhee's cadences are measured, which is to say they are calculated with great care.
This is the father-and-son companion to Someday, the book about the mother-daughter bond that reads like a snake eating its own tail. With both books I can't imagine what sort of child they are intended for. Grown children? Adults with children who want an American Greeting Card memory of a time that never really existed except in a post-martini haze? New parents who don't realize the fantasy this represents? Seriously, with Little Boy I can see maybe half a reading of this before the little boy being read to wants to go find a cardboard box of his own to play with rather than finish this non-story.
Beyond that, the book is a keepsake, a contemporary Norman Rockwell portrait of boyhood. Grandparents will love it, so might some new parents, but it's not for children.
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