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.
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

Roxaboxen

Children's Books

McLerran, Alice

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Roxaboxen looks like nothing but rocks and sand, but it is really a place of jeweled houses and streets edged in white stones--fertile ground where a child's imagination can really soar. Reprint.

Roxaboxen (Picture Puffins)

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Puffin

An account of the Ghost Dance movement, a dramatic episode in Native American history, recalls how Native American peoples danced together in the hope of restoring their old world but soon encountered tragedy, with the massacre at Wounded Knee.

The Ghost Dance

Geography & Cultures

Clarion Books

Illustrations and rhyming text explore the different meanings hugs can have

Hugs

scholastic

Adorable illustrations featuring kissable babies and toddlers complement a gentle, rhyming text that explores the importance of a kiss.

Kisses

Demco Media

Roxaboxen (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

“McLerran’s elegant, spare text begins by describing the result of white settlers’ relentless westward movement in the U.S. The scenario is one often related in books sympathetic to Native Americans: buffalo, their hides stripped, left to rot on the prairie; streams stripped of fish; and herds of elk and buffalo depleted. In poetic prose, she talks about a Paiute visionary, Tavibo, and his son who each dreamed that if Native peoples danced, the white people would disappear and the ghosts of the wildlife that had been decimated would return. . . . Morin’s thoughtful assemblages contain many objects that place the book in its historical context. The evocative paintings feature a variety of textures. . . . This stunning book will hold great appeal for environmentally conscious readers, and will interest classroom teachers seeking a poetic call-to-action.” —School Library Journal, starred

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Roxaboxen

Roxaboxen (Picture Puffins)

The Ghost Dance

Hugs

Kisses

Roxaboxen

Roxaboxen (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The Ghost Dance

Roxaboxen

Roxaboxen