![]() ![]() Years go by and all the kids grow up, but no one forgets Roxaboxen and when Frances visits, fifty years later, her jeweled house still gleams. A lizard is buried in Roxaboxen’s cemetery and when the cactus blooms, they put flowers on the grave. They run their own businesses, drive their own pretend cars and ride imaginary horses as fast as they can. Marian becomes mayor of Roxaboxen and Frances builds a jeweled house out of colored desert glass. ![]() Each citizen is free to build whatever type of house suits them best with the available materials. The hill across from the houses is covered with rocks and boxes and the local kids set up a town there, called Roxaboxen, with special black pebbles for money and property lines defined with stones. The plot in a nutshell: Kids build an imaginary town. Written by Alice McLerran, Illustrated by Barbara Cooney HarperCollins, 1991 ![]()
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