The Big Box

Toni Morris, with the help of her son, Slade Morrison, once again writes a book that encourages people to think on a deeper level.  Unlike the majority of her writings, this is a children’s book that challenges the definition of social boundaries adults set for children.  In The Big Box, parents, teachers, and other adults determine the boundaries of personal freedom for three irrepressible children “who just can’t handle their freedom.”  Because these children don’t fit into the expectations that the adults have for how children should behave and act, the adults have created a world inside a box where the kids are to live.  The adults have supplied everything they think children would want: toys, games, gifts, and treats.  In this artificial world, the children are allowed to love carefree and happy.  What the adults don’t consider is that all these children want to be accepted for who they are and to have the freedom to be themselves.