Name: The Box-Car Children
Rating: 3.927710843373494 (83 reviews)
ISBN: 9786257120326

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Dorothy Lake Gregory

The Box-Car Children

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)

Cara Stegemann

** need to add quotes to Notebook. ** <br /><br />(Please note that my reviews are intended to be notes to myself - my memory is failing, and I need reminders about books I want to reread and books I didn’t finish. My reviews are not intended to be particularly useful for other readers.)

Kelsi Proulx

I had to re-read a book from childhood for one of my classes and I chose this one...It isn't as good as I remember it being but I think that is because there are so many issues that I can see now as an adult that I didn't pay attention to before. This book is about four orphan children that live on their own in a boxcar in the woods. That alone is so completely unbelievable to me I don't even know what to say. Then there are the major gender issues. The boys work and bring home money while the women make the home (the boxcar) pretty and prepare dinner. I know this was written in the 40s but I can't help noticing it. All that being said, I loved this book when I was little so I will still give it 4 stars.

Barry Hess

I remember reading this as a kid and thinking it was the greatest thing ever. Children on their own, fending for themselves and making it! Reading it to my daughters as an adult - not the same. The writing was really stilted, everything works out for the best, and there is only about three paragraphs of tension in the whole thing. Who cares, though? It wasn't for me, it was for them and just like younger-me, they loved it.

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