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Title: Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran, Barbara Cooney ISBN: 0-688-07592-4 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 22 April, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Roxaboxen
Comment: This book reminds me of when I was little and how my brother and sister and my neighbors and I would set up our own town. We had a jail and a market and a toy store and a gas station and we would use our bikes for our cars.
This book allows children to make up their own towns and rules on how they would like it to be. It allows their imagination to wander.
The story is based on the author's mother's childhood. Roxaboxen is a real place on the corner of Second Avenue and Eighth Street, in Yuma, Arizona. The author was able to write this story by getting information from diaries, memories from relatives, and letter and maps frm inhabitants of Roxaboxon.
I would highly recommend this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: A book as large as the desert sky
Comment: The sky in Arizona is like looking into God's eyes. In its quiet way, this powerful book takes us directly into the realm of imagination and play that resourceful children inhabit. There is a cozy, dreamy drift to the tale, which describes the imaginary town of Roxaboxen, and the activities of the children who created and peopled it. The real gift of this book is how it illuminates that magical realm's fundamental importance to the spirit of both children and adults. Not one of the children from Roxaboxen ever forgot about it; it stayed with them for life. And it should for us all. Barbara Cooney works wonders with colorful, evocative illustrations that are even more beautiful and touching than those in Mrs. Rumphius. This marvelous book demonstrates that the best children's literature is equally enjoyable and valuable for adults.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful picture book geared towards adults
Comment: Roxaboxen is a lovely story about a childhood playground created by the author's mother, her mother's siblings and her mother's friends.
While children will enjoy the pictures and may get some great ideas for building their own Roxaboxen "town", adult readers are the ones who will truly treasure this story. Its sweet nostalgic look at childhood is a catalyst for our own stories and memories to return. Cooney's pictures are appropriate and enjoyable but subdued.
Overall, a nice memorial to the real Roxaboxen and its residents.
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Title: Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney ISBN: 0140505393 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Great Aunt-Arizona by Gloria Houston, Susan Condie Lamb ISBN: 0060226064 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0689717385 Publisher: Pearson Learning Pub. Date: 31 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe ISBN: 0689710550 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 31 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Hazel's Amazing Mother (Pied Piper) by Rosemary Wells ISBN: 0140549110 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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