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| Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Did you read about the Alden children--Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny--when you were young? How about your children or grandchildren? Do they read this series? What about your students? Do the Boxcar Children books circulate in your library?
To celebrate this series, Newbery author, Patricia MacLachlan, has written a prequel to the series called the Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fairmeadow Farm. It will be available on August 15, 2012. Will you be purchasing it for your library?
My mother read The Boxcar children when she was young and she read it to me and my siblings. I will always love this series because of my Mother's love for it. We do have this in our library and in the past it has been popular but not so much at present. Perhaps I will do what my mother did and show my students how much I love this series.
ReplyDeleteThe Boxcar children was the first book read aloud to me in school. I was in 4th or 5th grade and the teacher would read for a while after recess, and I couldn't wait to see what happened next. I have quite a few episodes in the library, and a few kids really like them.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading the Box Car Children to my 2nd grade class back in the late 70s. The children were always begging me to read it to them. When I was assigned a 2nd grade ELD class a couple of years ago, I tried reading it to them. This class was just as anxious to get to that part of our day as the children over 30 years ago. I'd say that means Box Car Children is a classic.
ReplyDeleteI saw this book the other day. I want to get it for my library. It reminds me of my first year of teaching and I was in a 3rd grade classroom at Lowell. I got a big refrigerator box, turned it on its side and let the kids paint it. It was their box car and it became our reading corner for the year. The kids loved it and the book.
ReplyDeleteI just put a copy of the Boxcar Children Beginning in the district mail to the first four library technology teachers to respond to this blog. Enjoy the book Janice, Tim, Phyllis and DawnAnn!~
ReplyDeleteIn the picture on the posting, Gertrude Chandler Warner looks a little bit like my grandma. :-)
ReplyDeleteMine, too, Linda! Funny, but being old, I loved the Bobbsey Twins, and later, Nancy Drew. Now I read them and kinda laugh at the language conventions in them.
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