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"Roxaboxen" was what the neighborhood kids called the vacant hill where people had discarded boxes and there were lots of small rocks and not much else. They established a pretend village there, the houses outlined with rocks, boxes for furniture, pretend stores and streets, a mayor, town hall and laws (even a jail), mock wars, etc. that they remembered even after they had grown up and moved away. Based, says the afterword, on the author's mother's memories.
A lovely picture book about pretend/play, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney.
A lovely picture book about pretend/play, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney.
