SKU
B-202014
The Box-Car Children
$5.99
SKU | B-202014 |
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Author | Gertrude Chandler Warner, Dorothy Lake Gregory |
Publisher | Dover Publications |
Number of Pages | 112 |
Cover | Paperback |
Format | Medium |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-0486843384 |
Dimensions | 5" x 7.7" |
Four orphans — Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny — discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work. They also enter a world of freedom and adventure. When Violet falls ill, they're forced to take her to a doctor, even though they'll risk losing their independence by getting a grown-up involved.
Gertrude Chandler Warner read this story to her students and rewrote it many times to make sure that it would be both engaging and easy to read. The Box-Car Children was so successful that she published 18 sequels. Warner noted that the book "raised a storm of protest from librarians who thought the children were having too good a time without any parental control! That is exactly why children like it!" Ranked among the all-time "Top 100 Chapter Books" in a School Library Journal survey, The Box-Car Children is also among the National Education Association's "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."