The boxcar children
Call Number
- J WARN (OSH)
Edition
100th anniversary edition.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, [2024]
Physical Description
153 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm.
Summary
The Alden children were searching for a home -- and found a life of adventure! Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are brothers and sisters. They're orphans too, and the only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. In this first book in the Boxcar Children series, the Alden children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, and decide to call it home! This illustrated chapter book series is full of wholesome excitement, danger, and mystery.
Notes
"A Stepping Stone book."
"Originally published in different form in the United States in 1924, and subsequently in this revised edition in 1942." -- Title page verso.
"Mary Ellen Ellsworth's 'About Gertrude Chandler Warner' was originally published as an Afterword in the United States in the 60th anniversary edition published in 2002" -- Title page verso.
Contents
- Foreword by Mary Pope Osborne
- The Boxcar Children
- About Gertrude Chandler Warner by Mary Ellen Ellsworth
- Photograph album
- An open letter to children who ask how I happened to write The Boxcar Children.