Alice McLerran, Roxaboxen

- Dimensions: 8.25" x 10"

- 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.

- A classic picture book about a group of children who create a magical, imaginary town called Roxaboxen on a rocky hill, using found objects like rocks, sticks, and old boxes to build houses, streets, and shops. The story celebrates the power of childhood imagination, showing how a simple desert landscape transforms into a vibrant world with a town hall, ice cream parlors, and a "river road". The book remains a beloved classic about the lasting magic of play.

- "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 wihtest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination.

- In glowing desert hues, artist Barbara Cooney has caught the magic of Alice McLarren's treasured land of Roxaboxen– a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is.