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Original Title:	Roxaboxen
ISBN:	0060526335 (ISBN13: 9780060526337)
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Setting:	Arizona(United States)

Roxaboxen Paperback | Pages: 32 pages

Interpretation During Books Roxaboxen

From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination. This picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children. Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing but sand and rocks, and some old wooden boxes. But it was a special place. And all children needed to go there was a long stick and a soaring imagination. “A celebration of the transforming magic of the imagination. An original.” —ALA Booklist

Details Containing Books Roxaboxen

Title	:	Roxaboxen
Author	:	Alice McLerran
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 32 pages
Published	:	April 13th 2004 by HarperCollins (first published April 22nd 1991)
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books

Rating Containing Books Roxaboxen

Ratings: 4.41 From 5345 Users | 343 Reviews

Assessment Containing Books Roxaboxen

I dont know if Ive ever read a book that captured this time of childhood so well, written with exactly the important details that you almost had forgotten the importance of as an adult, but make it all come rushing back with joy. When Will read it to the kids he said it almost made him cry. Nostalgic, warm, and beautiful.

This was my favorite book as a child. Granted, I'm completely biased because it's about my great-grandmother, Anna May, and her sisters, and the author is my cousin.

Don't be misled by my rating, this really is a good book. The illustrations, while not the best I've ever seen from Cooney, are reliably high in quality, and McLerran's prose captures the voice of her elderly relative recounting their childhood games. My failure to enjoy the book more is rooted in my personal dissatisfaction with where my life has taken me and my regrets over lost opportunities and wasted potential. I can see objectively that the book is meant to evoke a pleasant nostalgia, but



Ah, nostalgia! This book really got to me. I remember using a stick as a horse, a box or a table with blanket as a fort, and, with a group of other kids inventing all sorts of games (my childhood favorite we called chase). The fact that at the end of the book, theres a note that indicates this is historical fiction: there was a Roxaboxen, a place where the authors mother played. The fact that she turned her mothers play activity years before into a book is just so cool, and also wonderful is

Logan (age 6.5) liked this book (3 stars) and I absolutely loved it (5 stars); hence the 4 stars. I so enjoy Cooney's ilustrations in any book, and this is no exception. It's a simple story, without much action. A group of neighborhood kids in what looks to be the 1920s create a community they call Roxaboxen (no doubt from the fact that it's made up mostly of rocks and boxes) on a hill in their SW desert neighborhood. There are houses and stores (outlined in white rocks or "desert glass"), a

Remember playing make-believe? With some sticks and some pebbles and a scrap of cloth, you could create whole worlds. That's what the children in Roxaboxen do: running wild in the desert--its fiery colors alive in Cooney's illustrations--they construct a village, a kingdom, a perfectly imperfect paradise. This is the book that really opened my mind to what the imagination can do. I can still close my eyes and see the desert glass glowing in the twilight.