The Boxcar Children 100th Anniversary Edition

Illustrated by L. Kate Deal
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Hardcover
$14.99 US
On sale Oct 08, 2024 | 176 Pages | 9780593905029

Celebrate 100 years of the Boxcar Children with this premium hardcover gift edition of a beloved classic.

Perfect for gift giving, this special unjacketed hardcover edition of the Boxcar Children is the ideal start to a beloved series. It includes bonus content about the books and the life of Gertrude Chandler Warner, including author photos, personal correspondences, and archival historical content. This edition of the chapter book makes a wonderful keepsake for classroom and family-read alouds and fans of all ages.

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.
Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books. View titles by Gertrude Chandler Warner

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Celebrate 100 years of the Boxcar Children with this premium hardcover gift edition of a beloved classic.

Perfect for gift giving, this special unjacketed hardcover edition of the Boxcar Children is the ideal start to a beloved series. It includes bonus content about the books and the life of Gertrude Chandler Warner, including author photos, personal correspondences, and archival historical content. This edition of the chapter book makes a wonderful keepsake for classroom and family-read alouds and fans of all ages.

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.

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Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books. View titles by Gertrude Chandler Warner

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