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A juvenile vehicle seat for use with a passenger seat includes a base and a drawer. The base is adapted to boost a child relative to an underlying vehicle seat. The drawer is coupled to the base to move into and out of a drawer-receiving cavity formed in the base.

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1. A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a base adapted to boost a child relative to an underlying vehicle seat, the base including a bottom shell and a top shell, the bottom shell including a floor and an upstanding latch retainer coupled to the floor and arranged to extend upwardly toward the top she

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A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a base adapted to boost a child relative to an underlying vehicle seat, the base including a bottom shell and a top shell, the bottom shell including a floor and an upstanding latch retainer coupled to the floor and arranged to extend upwardly toward the top shell,a drawer that moves into and out of a drawer-receiving cavity formed between the top shell and the bottom shell of the base, anda drawer motion controller including a flex tab coupled to the drawer, a handle coupled to the flex tab, and a latch that extends downwardly from the flex tab toward the floor of the bottom shell,wherein the latch retainer included in the base and the latch included in the drawer-motion controller cooperate to provide lock means for locking the drawer in a closed position arranged mostly inside the drawer-receiving cavity of the base until a caregiver lifts the handle upwardly in a downwardly-opening channel formed by a front wall of the drawer to cause the flex tab and the latch to move upwardly away from the floor of the lower shell to a height above the floor at which the latch is free from engagement with the latch retainer so that the drawer is free to move relative to the base from the closed position to an open position arranged to extend outside the drawer-receiving cavity in response to application of a horizontal pulling force applied to the handle,wherein the drawer and the flex tab are formed from a monolithic elastic component and the flex tab moves about a flex line arranged at the connection of the flex tab with drawer in response to movement of the handle upwardly into the downwardly-opening channel, andwherein the handle includes a grip arranged in the downwardly-opening channel formed by the front wall of the drawer and a grip mount that extends from the grip in the downwardly-opening channel to the flex tab to couple the flex tab to the handle for movement therewith, the front wall of the drawer includes a front panel, a back panel, and a top panel that cooperate to define the downwardly-opening channel, and the back panel of the front wall is formed to include a pass-through aperture through which the grip mount extends. 2. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the flex tab includes a main panel arranged under the grip mount and a handle-retention bridge that extends over the grip mount to hold the grip mount in place relative to the flex tab. 3. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the latch is formed to include a blocker wall and a tab-biasing ramp, the blocker wall is arranged in relation to the latch retainer to block movement of drawer from the closed position to the opened position when the handle is in a lowered position within the downwardly-opening channel and arranged in relation to the latch retainer to allow movement of drawer from the closed position to the opened position when the handle is in a raised position within the downwardly-opening channel, and the tab-biasing ramp extends from the blocker wall toward the flex tab at an obtuse angle and is arranged to face the latch retainer to engage the latch retainer when the drawer is moved from the opened position to the closed position to temporarily move the flex tab and blocker wall upwardly over the latch retainer. 4. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 3, wherein the latch retainer is formed to include a motion-blocker wall and a latch-camming ramp, the motion-blocker wall is arranged in confronting relation with the blocker wall of the latch when the drawer is in the closed position and the handle is in the lowered position to block movement of the drawer toward the opened position, and the latch-camming ramp extends from the motion-blocker wall toward the floor of the lower shell at an obtuse angle and is arranged to cooperate with the tab-biasing ramp when the drawer is moved from the opened position to the closed position to temporarily move the flex tab and blocker wall upwardly over the latch retainer. 5. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the drawer includes a floor, a plurality of walls arranged to extend upwardly from the floor, and a drawer stop, the drawer stop includes a flexible drawer-stop tab coupled to the floor for movement relative to the floor and a drawer-stop brace arranged to extend downwardly from the drawer-stop tab, the drawer-stop brace located to engage the latch retainer when the drawer is moved to the opened position to block the drawer from being removed from the drawer-receiving cavity by a user pulling the drawer out of the base. 6. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 5, wherein the drawer stop includes a drawer-stop release arranged to extend upwardly from the drawer-stop tab into a storage compartment formed by the drawer to allow a user to lift upwardly on the drawer-stop release so that the drawer-stop tab flexes relative to the floor of the drawer and drawer-stop braces are lifted over the latch retainer thereby freeing the drawer to be pulled out of the base. 7. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 5, wherein the drawer-stop brace is formed to include a rearwardly-facing ramp surface arranged to form an obtuse angle with the drawer-stop tab and to engage the latch retainer upon movement of the drawer from outside the base into the base causing the drawer-stop tab to be flexed upwardly relative to the floor of the drawer so that the drawer-stop brace is lifted up and over the latch retainer to allow the drawer to be pushed into the base during assembly of the juvenile vehicle seat. 8. A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a base adapted to boost a child relative to an underlying vehicle seat, the base formed to include a drawer receiving cavity and an upwardly-extending latch retainer extending upwardly toward the drawer-receiving cavity,a drawer being coupled to the base for movement from a closed position arranged to lie inside drawer-receiving cavity so that a storage volume defined by the drawer is inaccessible to an opened position arranged to extend out of the base so that a storage volume defined by the drawer is accessible, anda drawer-motion controller coupled to the drawer to block or allow movement of the drawer from the closed position to the opened position, the drawer-motion controller including a flex tab coupled to the drawer, a latch extending downwardly from the flex tab and arranged to engage the latch retainer of the base to block movement of the drawer from the closed position to the opened position, and a handle coupled to the latch for movement therewith and arranged to extend out from inside the storage volume of the drawer,wherein the handle includes a grip arranged in a downwardly-opening channel formed by a front wall of the drawer and a grip mount that extends from the grip in the downwardly-opening channel to the flex tab to couple the flex tab to the handle for movement therewith, the front wall of the drawer includes a front panel, a back panel, and a top panel that cooperate to define the downwardly-opening channel, and the back panel of the front wall is formed to include a pass-through aperture through which the grip mount extends, andwherein the flex tab includes a main panel arranged under the grip mount and a handle-retention bridge that extends over the grip mount to hold the grip mount in place relative to the flex tab. 9. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 8, wherein the latch is formed to include a blocker wall and a tab-biasing ramp, the blacker wall is arranged in relation to the latch retainer to block movement of drawer from the closed position to the opened position when the handle is in a lowered position and arranged in relation to the latch retainer to allow movement of drawer from the closed position to the opened position when the handle is in a raised position, and the tab-biasing ramp extends from the blocker wall toward the flex tab at an obtuse angle and is arranged to face the latch retainer to engage the latch retainer when the drawer is moved from the opened position to the closed position to temporarily move the flex tab and blocker wall upwardly over the latch retainer. 10. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 9, wherein the latch retainer is formed to include a motion-blocker wall and a latch-camming ramp, the motion-blocker wall is arranged in confronting relation with the blocker wall of the latch when the drawer is in the closed position and the handle is in the lowered position to block movement of the drawer toward the opened position, and the latch-camming ramp extends from the motion-blocker wall toward the floor of the lower shell at an obtuse angle and is arranged to cooperate with the tab-biasing ramp when the drawer is moved from the opened position to the closed position to temporarily move the flex tab and blocker wall upwardly over the latch retainer. 11. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 8, wherein the drawer includes a floor, a plurality of walls arranged to extend upwardly from the floor, and a drawer stop, the drawer stop includes a flexible drawer-stop tab coupled to the floor for movement relative to the floor and a drawer-stop brace arranged to extend downwardly from the drawer-stop tab, the drawer-stop brace located to engage the latch retainer when the drawer is moved to the opened position to block the drawer from being removed from the drawer-receiving cavity by a user pulling the drawer out of the base. 12. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 11, wherein the drawer-stop brace is formed to include a rearwardly-facing ramp surface arranged to form an obtuse angle with the drawer-stop tab and to engage the latch retainer upon movement of the drawer from outside the base into the base causing the drawer-stop tab to be flexed upwardly relative to the floor of the drawer so that the drawer-stop brace is lifted up and over the latch retainer to allow the drawer to be pushed into the base during assembly of the juvenile vehicle seat. 13. A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a base including an upper shell and a lower shell, the lower shell including a floor, an upstanding latch retainer coupled to the floor and arranged to extend upwardly toward the upper shell, and a rear wall coupled to a lower panel spaced apart from the latch retainer and arranged to extend upwardly toward the upper shell,a drawer arranged to move in a drawer-receiving cavity formed between the upper shell and lower shell between an open position extended away from the rear wall and a closed position and the drawer including a floor, anda drawer-motion controller including a cantilevered flex tab coupled to the floor of the drawer, a handle coupled to the flex tab, and a latch coupled to the flex tab, the latch arranged to extend downwardly toward the lower panel,wherein the latch retainer coupled to the lower panel and the latch coupled to the flex tab cooperate to lock the drawer in the closed position until a user grips the handle and moves it upwardly in a handle receiving chamber formed in the drawer to cause the flex tab to move upwardly away from the lower panel to lift the latch to a height above the latch retainer to free the latch from engagement with the latch retainer so that the drawer is free to move relative to the base from the closed position to the open position in response to a horizontal pulling force on the handle, andwherein the handle receiving chamber is positioned at a front end of the drawer, the floor includes a rear portion located in a spaced-apart relation to the handle receiving chamber and a front portion positioned to lie between the handle receiving chamber and the rear portion, the front portion is formed to include a tab-receiving aperture, and the flex tab is arranged to lie in the tab receiving aperture and is coupled to the front portion of the floor to bend along a flex line extending laterally across the floor and separating the front portion and rear portion of the floor. 14. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 13, wherein the lower shell further includes a notch formed in the lower panel between the latch retainer and rear wall and the latch is positioned over the notch while the drawer is in the closed position. 15. The juvenile vehicle seat of claim 13, wherein the handle includes a grip and a grip mount and the grip mount is coupled to the flex tab and arranged in confronting relation with the flex tab.