Holly Reviews, Bookman!

If you are unfamiliar with the wonderful chapter book series, The Boxcar Children , let me introduce you. In the first book in this series was  The Boxcar Children (Rand McNally, 1924). In  The Boxcar Children  author Gertrude Chandler Warner introduces us to a family of four orphaned children: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. Initially upon becoming orphans, the four children move into a rundown boxcar they find in the woods. However, eventually, they meet their paternal grandfather. He turns out not to be the ogre of a man they feared, and they move in with him. However, he does have their boxcar home moved onto his property so that the children do not lose it. In subsequent books in the series, the siblings become mystery solvers. While I loved the first book in the series, I think this mystery-solving sibling brood was what really got me hooked on the series (that and my grandmother used to work at Albert Whitman & Company, which published many of the ...