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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 whitest 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 McLerran's treasured land of Roxaboxen a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is.
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 whitest 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 McLerran's treasured land of Roxaboxen a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is.
Roxaboxen
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780688075927 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 04/28/1991 |
Series: | Picture Puffin Books Series |
Edition description: | 1st ed |
Pages: | 32 |
Sales rank: | 209,725 |
Product dimensions: | 9.87(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d) |
Lexile: | AD710L (what's this?) |
Age Range: | 4 - 8 Years |
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