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About the Book\n\nThe day the new refrigerator arrived in its large brown carton,Christina Katerina and her mother were both excited—but for verydifferent reasons  \n\"Oh,how grand and new!\"said Christina's motherlooking atthe refrigerator.\"It is!Oh,it really is!\"murmured Christina,look-ing at the box,which she immediately dragged to the front yard.  \nIn a series of hilarious episodes,the box becomes a castle,a club-house,and other imaginations in which Christina and her friendFats swear undying friendship,wage furious battles,and driveChristina's mother crazy.  \nIn this lively story,Patricia Gauch has caught the wonderfulablity of boys and girls to use their imaginations with the mostcommon objectDoris Burn,well-known illustrator of AndrewHenry's Meadow,shows each transformation of the box in all itsglorious detai.  \n# CHRISTINA KATERINA\n\n&THE BOXby Patricia Lee Gauch  \nText copyright ◎197t by Patricta Lee Gauchllustrations copynght◎1971 by Dons BurnAll rghts reserved This book,or parts thereof,may not bereproduced in any form without permsston in wnting fromthe publshers Publashed simuhaneously in CanadaLCC71-133926 Hrst paperhack edtion published m 1980Pnnted in the United States of AmericaISBN0-698-20524-31paperback editon)79108  \nFor our Christina  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2010  \nhttp://www.archive.org/details/christinakatrink00gauc  \nhristina Katerina liked tbings:tin cups and old dresses,  \nworn-out ties and empty boxes.Any of those things,but mostly boxes.Hat boxes,  \nbakery boxes with see-through lids,shoe boxes.  \nBest of allshe liked big boxes.So she was happy in-deed one sleepy summer day—when even her some-times-friend Fats Watson was out of town —to see atruck deliver a great,tall box.It came on a refrigerator.","cbCaiaqMBnR8PrC0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaqMBnR8PrC0","pdf",3046731,"English","# About the Book\n## Plot Summary\n## Illustrations and Themes","[{\"question\":\"What does Christina Katerina like to 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