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Roxaboxen
by Alice McLerran
On a hill in Arizona, children built a real town out of nothing.
For you if
your child builds worlds out of rocks and sticks and you want a book that takes that completely seriously
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On a hill at the edge of a town in Arizona, a group of children build a town out of rocks, broken glass, and old boxes. They have streets and shops and a mayor and a jail. The town has its own rules. McLerran based this on her mother's actual childhood, and the illustrator Barbara Cooney renders it in the specific light of the desert Southwest. Roxaboxen is the most precise picture book ever written about what children's imaginative play actually is — not pretend, but real. The children who built it never forgot it. The book that tells children: the world you make is as real as the one you were given.
