Alice McLerran
Paperback | Pages: 32 pages Rating: 4.41 | 5345 Users | 343 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Roxaboxen |
| ISBN: | 0060526335 (ISBN13: 9780060526337) |
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| Setting: | Arizona(United States) |
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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
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| 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 |
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Ratings: 4.41 From 5345 Users | 343 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books Roxaboxen
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 isNew favorite bedtime book. Favorite line read together: "In Roxaboxen you can eat all the ice cream you want."
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.
A magical book ... for me, the parent! Evokes so many sensations, pictures, smells. The title page immediately took me to Anza Borrego Desert, a California State Park, at the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains. This is where I first experienced the pittoresque ocotillo plants and other colorful cacti in bloom. Subsequent pages made my mind wonder out to New Mexico, Santa Fe, and suddenly I was thinking of Georgia O'Keeffe. It's not that Barbara Cooney's drawing style is all that similar, but
Roxaboxen, by Alice McLerran, was a story that I enjoyed reading. It tells of an area across the street, where all the neighborhood kids played. They named the area "Roxaboxen." It was just like any rocky hill, filled with sand, rocks, and some wooden boxes. There, the neighborhood kids' imaginations were able to come out. They played there all the time, creating houses out of stones. They would make furniture out of the boxes, too. They eventually expanded their imaginative play into creating a
Everytime I read this, it juat brings me back to my childhood! Me and my brothers and cousins all grew up together, and out games turned out a lot like this. This was also my most favorite book as a kid. Whenever I saw it I would read it over and over and over again. It was to the point that in fourth or fifth grade I actually took it from our class bookshelf. My teacher never noticed (it kinda made me feel like a bad arse at the time) but eventually it faded and I couldn't remember what
Children don't need toys. At least not the ones that come from stores. That's the message of this book. The best toys and games are the ones that use the imagination. This little group of kids demonstrated this perfectly. This book reads like a memoir of their imaginative play, and it's not hard to believe that adults that had enjoyed this kind of ongoing pretend for so long would remember well, decades later, all of its contours and particulars.
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