Antoinette Portis
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Antoinette Portis is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Antoinette Portis
Antoinette Portis was a creative director and then a vice president at Disney before she began making picture books. Not a Box, bound in a cardboard cover, is an ALA Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book and one of the New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year.
Also by this author: Not a Stick · Now · Hey, Water!
Official website: www.antoinetteportis.com
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.