Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box (Ginny Goblin #1)

by David Goodner (Author) Louis Thomas (Illustrator)

Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box (Ginny Goblin  #1)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Ginny Goblin

Ginny Goblin is not allowed to open this box, but still she persists in this action-packed, laugh-out-loud debut for fans of Jon Klassen and Mo Willems.

Ginny Goblin is Not Allowed to Open This Box is the story of . . . well, there's a box, and Ginny Goblin is not allowed to open it. But oh, how she will try! Ninja suits, catapults, scaly serpents, motorcycles--Ginny will stop at nothing and she'll make readers giggle and cheer from beginning to end. Ginny Goblin has one simple rule to follow: She is not allowed to open this box. Not until dinnertime. But Ginny Goblin doesn't like to follow the rules, so nothing will stop her from trying to open this box. Not a tall tower, not a misty mountain, not a frightful forest, and certainly not a murky moat filled with scaly, scary serpents . . . But wait! What is in the box? You'll have to open this book to find out! (Don't worry, you're allowed.)

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Kirkus Reviews

Starred Review
A funny read-aloud with (mostly) chuckle-inducing illustrations.

Publishers Weekly

Ginny the goblin is a small, behorned, acid-green creature, and the titular box is large and round, with a gift tag attached to it. The story's real star, though, is the voice of a sly, magically omniscient narrator. It knows how Ginny is feeling ("But she really wants to know what's inside") and what the house rules say ("Not until dinnertime"), and it comes up with ever-sterner security measures ("What if we put the box way up on a shelf?"). What it's really doing is egging Ginny on as she wields ingenuity, initiative, and flat-out superpowers to get to the box: "She should not, for any reason, catapult little goats at the top of the shelf to knock the box down." The lighthearted line drawings by Thomas (88 Instruments) bring a mid-'60s cartoon vibe to the pages, a feeling of urbane restraint that reins in Goodner's feverish visions. Never fear--readers do get to find out what's in the box ("Now I'm really curious about what's inside!" the narrator confesses), but the joy is all in the getting there. Ages 4-7. (July)

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ALA/Booklist

Curiosity breeds ingenuity in this humorous story about a goblin determined to find out what's inside a deep, round spangly box.

Review quotes

 
David Goodner
David Goodner has an adoring wife and two tolerating cats. He works in a library where he gets to see all the new books before anybody else. This is his debut book.

Louis Thomas graduated from Gobelins/Paris and Calarts/Los Angeles. He is the author/illustrator of the book Hug It Out. Visit him at louist.blogspot.com and on Instagram at @Louis_Thomas_Draw.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780544764156
Lexile Measure
580
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
July 20, 2018
Series
Ginny Goblin
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV014000 - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Curiosity
Goblins
Boxes

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