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 o

Memoirs, reminiscences, and graphic materials combine to weave a tapestry of Roxaboxen, an imaginary place that the 11-year-old Marion and her friends created.

Katy's distress at being a kangaroo with no pouch is quickly remedied by a kindly construction worker.

A lovely, lyrical picture book with gorgeous illustrations that explores the ways the wild makes itself known to us and how much closer it is than we think. The

In 1919 Papa, Mama, and their four daughters homestead a tract of land near Yuma, Arizona, and try to turn a desert mesa into farmland and a shack into a home.