Don't be misled by my rating, this really is a good book. The illustrations, while not the best I've ever seen from Cooney, are reliably high in quality, and McLerran's prose captures the voice of her elderly relative recounting their childhood games. My failure to enjoy the book more is rooted in m...
I read my 6-year-old a beautiful book called Roxaboxen, about a group of children in the 1910s who create an imaginary town called Roxaboxen (made mostly of rocks and boxes) on a desert hill in Yuma, Arizona, complete with streets, houses, shops, and a jail. The book was illustrated by the incompara...
Completely charming celebration of the beauty and power of childhood imagination. What's especially charming about this particular book is that this is based on a true story of a group of children who founded and imaginary city (Roxaboxen) in Yuma, Arizona. Here they played house, raced horses, and...
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