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Roxaboxen (Picture Puffins)
Roxaboxen - Picture Puffins
Author: Alice McLerran
Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo -- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shop...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140544756
ISBN-10: 0140544755
Publication Date: 8/1/1992
Pages: 32
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
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Publisher: Puffin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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"Roxaboxen" was what the neighborhood kids called the vacant hill where people had discarded boxes and there were lots of small rocks and not much else. They established a pretend village there, the houses outlined with rocks, boxes for furniture, pretend stores and streets, a mayor, town hall and laws (even a jail), mock wars, etc. that they remembered even after they had grown up and moved away. Based, says the afterword, on the author's mother's memories.

A lovely picture book about pretend/play, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney.


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