Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
The Kiss Box
A reassuring story about separation and love
In this soothing love story between mother and child, Mama Bear offers various vessels to contain their love while they are apart--but none seem right. It's not until Little Bear suggests that they make each other a Kiss Box--filled with a hundred kisses--that they are able to stay connected--no matter where they are.
Whether it b...more
In this soothing love story between mother and child, Mama Bear offers various vessels to contain their love while they are apart--but none seem right. It's not until Little Bear suggests that they make each other a Kiss Box--filled with a hundred kisses--that they are able to stay connected--no matter where they are.
Whether it b...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
December 1st 2011
by Orchard Books
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
114)
The Kiss Box by Bonnie Verburg is an adorable story about a mama bear that has to leave her little bear for a while. Little bear says he will miss her terribly, and she tells him she will send him love and kisses every minute she is away. He wonders how he can keep the kisses she sends to him, and he comes up with an idea to make a box to keep all the love and kisses mama bear sends to him. He helps mama bear make a box, too so she can keep the love and kisses he sends to her when they are apart...more
Little Bear seeks reassurance from Mama Bear that she will always return to him, and that her love for him will never waver, even while they're apart. To help him deal with his anxiety, Mama Bear tells him she'll send him kisses or store them in a jar or an envelope. He, in turn, prepares a box filled with 100 of his kisses for his mother. She makes one for him as well. The author includes an explanation about how her own family used a kiss jar, making the story even more poignant. The watercolo...more
I love this sweet, comforting picture book for young children. Mama Bear has always been home with Little Bear but she has to go away on a trip and Little Bear will miss her terribly. Together they come up with a clever way to leave kisses for one another for whenever they feel lonely and miss each other. I wish this book had been around when my own were little and I am enjoying sharing it with every small child I am around. I find they all love it and so do I. Share this with a kid you love and...more
A sweet and tender separation anxiety story where a mother puts her child at ease about being apart. This patient Mama answers all of her child's questions, soothing his worries away with reassurances, hugs and kisses. What parents and educators should try out with small children going to school for the first time is make a kissing box, an amazing way to keep child and parent together even when they each have to be somewhere else. Highly recommended for ages four and up.
Little Bear finds a way to feel Mama Bears love when she is away and also send his love to her through the exchange of a kiss box.
Kindergarten can be hard for many parents and children. This book can help them adjust to being away from home during the day and can be created into the students making their own kiss boxes.
This book would make a great first day of school read aloud in Kindergarten but for all other grades I would leave it as a classroom library book.
Kindergarten can be hard for many parents and children. This book can help them adjust to being away from home during the day and can be created into the students making their own kiss boxes.
This book would make a great first day of school read aloud in Kindergarten but for all other grades I would leave it as a classroom library book.
A mother bear has to leave her little bear for a short while but he doesn't want her to go. She tells him she will make a kiss jar, kiss envelope, and kiss fingers so that her love will always come to him. He surprises her by making a kiss box for her and then they make one for him together. A cute story for one on one sharing or for older preschoolers in a storytime setting, but nothing that is that original.
Baby bear is upset that his mom has to leave for a little bit. He wants to make sure she still loves him so he decides to make a kiss box. Whenever they are apart they can still have kisses from each other. They just open their boxes filled with 100 kisses. This book is very sweet and helps with separation issues.
A very cute story. This would be a good book to have a student read if their parent is going on a long business trip or off to war. Ther mama bear and baby bear try to come up with ways to always be together, so they come up with a kiss box that contains 100 kisses. Now they can always be together wherever they are.
Sweet story. Loved the writer's note at the end. If you have to leave your little one for an extended time, it would be nice to read the book and have a project making kiss boxes before the separation.
Highly recommend this gem for parents looking for books that deal with separation anxiety as well as for preK story times (with a built in extension activity;). Recommended age 3+
When Mama Bear and Little Bear have to be apart, they each keep kisses in a special box as a reminder that they are always loved and remembered.
Sweet story and good for a read aloud with Kiss box craft for Mother's Day. I loved the backstory involving author Audrey Wood. Lovely.
Sappy, yes...but do be sure to read the storyteller's note after the end of the story. I can't help but like this more after reading it.
SO cute! I just love the idea of a kiss box. It will help being away from my own children when I eventually decide to have some.
I like The Kissing Hand better. Same kind of story. My favorite part was actually the author's note in the back.
A little sappy, but I think this book would be good to read to any child that has to be away from their parent.
separation anxiety type story between a young bear and his mother...sweet...maybe a little too sweet.
loved this children's book.. Every parent should read it to their children and more than once
This is the only sappy book I would give the green light.
Loved it.
Loved it.
I liked how little bear made a box of kisses for his mom.
Simple and warm, a bit too sentimental for my taste.
Cute pictures with a sweet but sappy story.
I wasn't sure what I thought about this book until I read it to my four-year-old. It really spoke to her! We talked about how I have to go away sometimes but I always come back, etc. She was just delighted to find herself in a story.
Apr 25, 2013
Zaidee
marked it as to-read
Apr 07, 2013
Wren
added it
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
