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Perhaps it brought them back to a simpler time, a time of joyous friendship, a time with no worries or responsibilities childhood.

This was also my parents' favorite book to read me. I was not the only person who loved the story and images created by McLerran and Cooney. I wanted to build something like the kids in Roxaboxen. I wanted to play like the kids in Roxaboxen did. It is a "celebration of the active imagination, of the ability of children to create, even with the most unpromising materials, a world of fantasy so real an dmultidimensional that it earns a lasting place in memory" ( Roxaboxen, 1992). Its story is enduring, creative, unique, yet relatable, and unforgettable.

Reflection: Roxaboxen is, to this day, one of the best children's books that I have ever read.