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Determined to stay together Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny sneak off in the middle of the night. Their father has died unexpectedly and they are concerned they will be spilt up or even worse sent off to live with their cruel grandfather. In the forest they find an abandoned box car. Here they make their home and begin a series of grand adventures.The Boxcar Children was made into the motion picture in 2014. The National Education Association named the The Box-Car Children one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children and School Library Journal ranked it among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books for Children.This is a edition contains full color illustrations.

Determined to stay together Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny sneak off in the middle of the night. Their father has died unexpectedly and they are concerned they will be spilt up or even worse sent off to live with their cruel grandfather. In the forest they find an abandoned box car. Here they make their home and begin a series of grand adventures.The Boxcar Children was made into the motion picture in 2014. The National Education Association named the The Box-Car Children one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children and School Library Journal ranked it among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books for Children.This is a edition contains full color illustrations.

Determined to stay together Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny sneak off in the middle of the night. Their father has died unexpectedly and they are concerned they will be spilt up or even worse sent off to live with their cruel grandfather. In the forest they find an abandoned box car. Here they make their home and begin a series of grand adventures.The Boxcar Children was made into the motion picture in 2014. The National Education Association named the The Box-Car Children one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children and School Library Journal ranked it among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books for Children.This is a edition contains full color illustrations.

Determined to stay together Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny sneak off in the middle of the night. Their father has died unexpectedly and they are concerned they will be spilt up or even worse sent off to live with their cruel grandfather. In the forest they find an abandoned box car. Here they make their home and begin a series of grand adventures.The Boxcar Children was made into the motion picture in 2014. The National Education Association named the The Box-Car Children one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children and School Library Journal ranked it among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books for Children.This is a edition contains full color illustrations.

Determined to stay together Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny sneak off in the middle of the night. Their father has died unexpectedly and they are concerned they will be spilt up or even worse sent off to live with their cruel grandfather. In the forest they find an abandoned box car. Here they make their home and begin a series of grand adventures.The Boxcar Children was made into the motion picture in 2014. The National Education Association named the The Box-Car Children one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children and School Library Journal ranked it among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books for Children.This is a edition contains full color illustrations.

2019 Reprint of 1924 First Edition. Illustrated with Original Color Drawings. Reprint of the text and color illustrations of the First Edition of 1924. The text of this edition is different than later “sanitized” editions. The Box-Car Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse. The book was adapted as the film The Boxcar Children in 2014 and the sequel novel Surprise Island was released as a film in 2018. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the original book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 the original novel was ranked among the all-time "Top 100 Chapter Books", or children's novels, in a survey published by School Library Journal.

About seven o'clock one hot summer evening a strange family moved into the little village of Middlesex. Nobody knew where they came from, or who they were. But the neighbors soon made up their minds what they thought of the strangers, for the father was very drunk. He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him. Toward eight o'clock a pretty, capable-looking girl of twelve came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the baker's. And that was all the villagers learned about the newcomers that night."There are four children," said the bakeshop woman to her husband the next day, "and their mother is dead. They must have some money, for the girl paid for the bread with a dollar bill.""Make them pay for everything they get," growled the baker, who was a hard man. "The father is nearly dead with drink now, and soon they will be only beggars."This happened sooner than he thought. The next day the oldest boy and girl came to ask the bakeshop woman to come over. Their father was dead.She went over willingly enough, for someone had to go. But it was clear that she did not expect to be bothered with four strange children, with the bakery on her hands and two children of her own."Haven't you any other folks?" she asked the children."We have a grandfather in Greenfield," spoke up the youngest child before his sister could clap her hand over his mouth."Hush, Benny," she said anxiously.This made the bakeshop woman suspicious. "What's the matter with your grandfather?" she asked."He doesn't like us," replied the oldest boy reluctantly. "He didn't want my father to marry my mother, and if he found us he would treat us cruelly.""Did you ever see him?""Jess has. Once she saw him.""Well, did he treat you cruelly?" asked the woman, turning upon Jess."Oh, he didn't see me," replied Jess. "He was just passing through our—where we used to live—and my father pointed him out to me.""Where did you use to live?" went on the questioner. But none of the children could be made to tell."We will get along all right alone, won't we, Henry?" declared Jess."Indeed we will!" said Henry."I will stay in the house with you tonight," said the woman at last, "and tomorrow we will see what can be done."The four children went to bed in the kitchen, and gave the visitor the only other bed in the house. They knew that she did not at once go to bed, but sat by the window in the dark. Suddenly they heard her talking to her husband through the open window.The Box-Car Children, Shelter, Housekeeping, Earning A Living, Cherry Picking, Ginseng, A United Family

In this 1924 version of the first book in The Boxcar Children series, four recently orphaned children are sent to live with their grandfather, whom they have been raised to fear. They decide instead to strike out on their own, and take residence in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The eldest child finds work in a nearby town, and it seems that all will be well until the youngest girl become ill and the children must go to a doctor for help.

The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse. When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they make plans the children don't like. They plan to send the children, who live in a house next door to the bakery, to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents' marriage. The baker and his wife plan to take the three elder children, who are old enough to be helpful in the bakery, but to send the youngest, Benny to an orphanage. Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of work. Henry ends up working in a nearby town called Silver City for a young doctor called Dr. Moore in order to earn money for food and other things they need. He also does gardening for the doctor's mother. The children's lives are nice and full of hard work until Violet becomes ill and they go to the doctor for help. The book was adapted as the film in 2014.

The Boxcar Children is the tale of four strayed kids, namely, Henry, Jessie or Jess, Violet, and Benny. In the 1924 edition of the story, the kids are left alone in the first short chapters and in the comprehensively revised and abridged 1942 edition, they have apparently been left without parents for quite some time. When a baker and his wife came to know that the kids have no parents, they create strategies the kids do not concur. In the 1924 version, they plot to bring the kids, who stay in a home next to their bakery, to reside with their grandfather, but the kids have been made to be afraid of their grandfather, whom they have in no way seen, because he did not consent to the marriage of their parents. In the 1942 edition, the kids are at that time living without a home and meandering everywhere at the beginning of the tale. The baker and his wife devise to bring the three older kids, who are mature enough to be of use in the bakery, but to take the youngest kid, Benny to a Children's Home. Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American writer, mostly of tales for children. She was best known for drafting the original story of The Boxcar Children and for the following 18 stories in the series. Gertrude was born in Putnam, Connecticut, to her parents Edgar Morris Warner and Jane Elizabeth Carpenter Warner. Her family counted in an elder sister, Frances, and a younger brother, John. Her middle name of Chandler was from her mother's forefathers, the Chandlers, who had lived close to Woodstock, CT in 1686. Her father Edgar Warner had finished studying at Harvard Law School in 1872 and became a lawyer in Putnam, CT. The Warner's residence on Main Street was situated around from the railroad station.