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The Boxcar Children (Boxcar Children, No 1)Gertrude Chandler Warner, Phyllis Newman (Reader)
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The Boxcar Children (Boxcar Children, No 1)Gertrude Chandler Warner, Phyllis Newman (Reader)
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The adventurous exploits of four courageous and clever youngsters who make their home in a boxcar have proven delightful to middle-grade audiences.
This book was read to our fourth grade class nearly twenty years ago and to my three sons (ages 2, 4 and 6) this last summer during a roadtrip! Truly a timeless classic, this is a tale of adventure that all children will love. The four orphaned Alden children in the story are kind and good to each other and learn how to depend upon themselves and each other. The values they learn from their trials and hard work are lessons all children should learn! The chapters are short and easy reading for children 9 and up, and would make perfect storytime reading, night after night for parents of younger children.
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and sisters, suddenly appear in a small town. No one knows who these young wanderers are or where they have come from. Frightened to live with a grandfather they have never met, the children make a home for themselves in an abandoned 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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