The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and sisters, suddenly appear in a small town. No one knows who these young wanderers are of where they have come from. Frightened to live with a grandfather they have never met, the children make a home for themselves in an abondoned red boxcar they discover in the woods. Henry, the oldest, goes to town to earn money and buy food and supplies.
Ambitious and resourceful, the plucky children make a happy life for themselves - until Violet gets too sick for her brothers and sister to care for her.
This unabridged recording will delight any child who has fantasized about being on his or her own and overcoming every obstacle.
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I remember having part of this read to me in first grade. When I found it in my LFL I had to read it again. Loved it except for the fatphobia.
I read this because my 8-year-old son read it and loved it. This strikes me as the kind of book you have to read when you’re a kid though.
First, aside from the charm of living in an abandoned boxcar, which I totally get, there wasn’t much I enjoyed.
Second, none of the characters behave in a way explicable to adult readers. The children’s parents recently died but none of the children suffer ill-effects. None of the four are grief-stricken, shocked, regressing, or even irritable. None of the adults behave in explicable ways either. And [spoiler alert] the kids end up with a grandfather who is almost certainly an asshole as he has had no relationship with his four grandkids up until now.
First, aside from the charm of living in an abandoned boxcar, which I totally get, there wasn’t much I enjoyed.
Second, none of the characters behave in a way explicable to adult readers. The children’s parents recently died but none of the children suffer ill-effects. None of the four are grief-stricken, shocked, regressing, or even irritable. None of the adults behave in explicable ways either. And [spoiler alert] the kids end up with a grandfather who is almost certainly an asshole as he has had no relationship with his four grandkids up until now.
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