Ready Reference Treatise: The Boxcar Children

By Raja Sharma

“The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler Warner was originally published in 1924. It is a children’s book. Gertrude Chandler Warner was a first-grade school teacher in America when she wrote this book.

There are, at present, more than one hundred titles in this series. This series is particularly for children.

The book’s revised edition was published in 1942. The story revolves around four orphan children named Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. These children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest.

The children finally meet their grandfather. He happens to be a very rich but very kind man, although the children had believed that he would be cruel. The children take a decision to live with their grandfather. The old man has the beloved boxcar shifted to his backyard so that it can be used as a playhouse by the children.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Boxcar Children
Copyright
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Major and Minor Characters
Chapter Four: Summary in Brief
Chapter Five: Complete Summary
Chapter Six: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Feb 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311427236

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Boxcar Children

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Boxcar Children

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner was originally published in 1924. It is a children’s book. Gertrude Chandler Warner was a first-grade school teacher in America when she wrote this book.

There are, at present, more than one hundred titles in this series. This series is particularly for children.

The book’s revised edition was published in 1942. The story revolves around four orphan children named Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. These children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest.

The children finally meet their grandfather. He happens to be a very rich but very kind man, although the children had believed that he would be cruel. The children take a decision to live with their grandfather. The old man has the beloved boxcar shifted to his backyard so that it can be used as a playhouse by the children.

The Boxcar Children was chosen as one of Top One Hundred Books for Children through an online poll in the year 2007. The book has been included in most of the school libraries in most of the English speaking countries.

The book details the children’s adventures, and the stories of their adventures continue in the subsequent books written by the author. They reveal several mysteries in their neighbourhood. They visit several places with their grandfather.

The present books in this series are now set in the present day, but the original books were set in the 1920s and 1930s.

For all that, a reader can say that the book does not offer much about the modern day life, because the characters in the book ride horses and buggies. Their language also feels outdated on several occasions. However, they are very cheerful and all of them have their positive attitudes. They are obviously quite different in their attitudes and manners from the present day children.

Although the children have immense amount of darkness in their lives, they are very well-adjusted, and it makes it easy to forget their problems.

As the book opens, the four orphans are barely surviving. They are homeless and they survive on the scraps from the garbage and the one dollar that Henry earns at his backbreaking job.

When their parents are dead, they take refuge in a forest and the hide there. They are afraid of the adults who they think are uncaring. They do not have any possessions and they have nobody to take