The boxcar children

The Alden family mysteries

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Hardcover, 154 pages

English language

Published April 4, 1950 by Albert Whitman & Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-8075-0851-0
OCLC Number:: 2803581

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(28 reviews)

The first adventure of the Alden children who make a boxcar their home.

26 editions

DavidB_Tn@books.mxhdr.net reviewed The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children (1))

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5 stars

This book was one of a handful that helped me graduate from children's books. It's was kind of a young adult or tween fiction of its time, and it was easily one of the favorite books of my childhood.

NightDrake reviewed The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children (1))

Review of 'The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I like these books even as an adult. It's sort of hard to imagine that kids back in this era was as resourceful as they are. I'd but to have read more about their survival in the boxcar, but those details weren't given. All the kids have different personalities, yet they get along so very well.