Imagination is so very powerful and it is a skill that requires practice and should be encouraged. Playing imagination games with simple things that would ordinarily be thrown away is one of the greatest pleasures of childhood. That is what today’s story is all about.

Christina Katerina & the Box is all about the fact that little children just love cardboard boxes. It begins with a new refrigerator being delivered down the street from Christina’s house. Her mother is all in awe of the new appliance but all Christina can see is the box, which she promptly gloms onto.

First (with some help from her Dad) she turns it into a castle . . .

Where she plays happily until her friend in the neighborhood comes home from vacation. Then the box becomes a clubhouse.

That lasts for while, then in a disagreement over club procedures her friend sits on the roof and squashes the box.

So she makes it into a race car. That lasts until the box finally collapses; but Christina still won’t let her Mother throw away the box.

She colors it to make a mansion floor.

Where everybody has a grand party. After the party her friend cleans up and the mansion floor gets wet and disintegrates. Raking up the box remains Christina’s Mother is glad that the box adventures are over.

But wait, Christina’s friends Mother just got a new washer and dryer . . .

So off they go on an ocean voyage.

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