About this title: To anyone else, it might look like an ordinary hill in the desert, with rocks, some old wooden boxes, and thorny plants. But to Marian, her sisters, and their friends, it was an imaginary town, full of possibilities for fun and play.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140544756ISBN:0140544755
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 0688075932 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060526337ISBN:0060526335
Description: New. Slight shelf wear. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780590455893ISBN:0590455893
Description: Cooney, Barbara. Fine. Picture Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fine. There is minute wear and minute creasing to the cover. The pages are crisp and clean. No tears, no scribbles, no writing, price sticker on back cover, faint sticker residue on front cover. NOT an ex-library book! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060526337ISBN:0060526335
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780688075934ISBN:0688075932
Description: Cooney, Barbara. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. 1991 First Edition stated. Nice X Library book with stickers, library marks, and pocket inside front. Plastic sleeve on DJ rubbed. The text is clean, tight, and shows light reading wear. Library binding. Cloth over boards. 32 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"I spent last weekend in Santa Fe, which reminded me so much of the beautiful Arizona desert I grew up in. This got me thinking about one of my family's favorite picture books: Roxaboxen. Roxaboxen is a celebration of the imaginary world that children often live in, and a great reminder to adults that sometimes all a child needs is the chance to play outdoors.
Roxaboxen takes place in a desert where, at first glance, the landscape appears to be quite bare. But it is not bare to the children who live there. For them, Roxaboxen is a place that through the power of make believe, turns into a magical world. As the children outline the streets with stones, the town begins to grow and grow. There's a main street, a town hall, a bakery and two ice cream parlors. ("In Roxaboxen you can eat all the ice cream you want.") The children build houses, which start off quite plain, but take on more and more rooms as time goes on. There's a jail and a cemetery in Roxaboxen, but the only grave is that of a dead lizard.
In Roxaboxen, everybody has a car; all you need is something round for a steering wheel. But you'd better watch out, because there's a speed limit for cars and if you don't mind it, you'll end up in jail. Even better, everyone has a horse. All you need for a horse is a stick and some kind of bridle. (And there's no speed limit for people on horses!)
Barbara Cooney's illustrations lend the perfect touch to Roxaboxen. She captures the essence of the desert perfectly. In particular, I love the ocotillos with the brilliant red flowers at their tips and the colorful desert sky at sunset. It whisked me right back to my own childhood in Arizona.
You can see that Roxaboxen is a "quiet book." On the one hand, there's not a lot going on, and yet there's so much going on. I love this book because it celebrates a childhood filled with play, instead of one filled with "things." My kids all loved Roxaboxen when they were younger. I think it's a book that will inspire your kids to go outside and create an imaginary world in your backyard."
"Children playing unsupervised with broken glass! And no one died, except for the iguana. Great picture book based on a true story of a little patch of land some children claimed with their own imaginations."
"I got this book from the library b/c my daughter is going to have to read it next year in third grade. It is somewhat interesting; based on true story. It is better than some of the non-fiction type books she had to read in second grade."
"My daughter liked this book enough to ask me to read it two times, but I'm the one who really likes it. It gives me sentimental chills. This nostalgic tale of childhood is something I could relate to, but my daughter could also relate to it quite well, which goes to show that as much as things have changed in the past generation, some universal truths of childhood never change."
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