The Boxcar Children Collection - by Gertrude Chandler Warner - Audio Book CD
Brand New (7 CDs - 7.5 hours):
About The Boxcar Children Collection
Four titles in one...
The Chocolate Sunday Mystery: Mr. Brown, the new ice cream store owner, asks the Boxcar children for help in finding out who is sabotaging his business by stealing ice cream, breaking windows, and otherwise damaging his store. Simultaneous.
The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain: When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them.
The Mystery of the Spiders Clue: When an elderly friend is injured, the Alden children offer to help him with his window-washing business in their small town of Greenfield and agree to help him solve a riddle that has arrive.
The Ghost Ship Mystery: During a trip to New England, the Aldens learn about a mysterious ship, the Flying Cloud, that had been lost at sea years earlier and that supposedly reappears during a storm. Simultaneous.
About Gertrude Chandler Warner
(From Wikipedia) Gertrude Chandler Warner (April 16, 1890 - August 30, 1979) was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for beginning the popular Boxcar Children book series.
Born in Putnam, Connecticut, Warner dreamed of being a famous author from the age of five. Her favorite book was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Being in a musical family, she was almost predisposed to play an instrument; in her case, she chose the cello, and her father bought her a cello kit at a young age. However, because of her frequent illness, Warner never finished high school. After leaving in her sophomore year, she learned from a tutor and finished her secondary education. In 1918, while she was teaching Sunday School, Warner was called to teach first grade, mainly because male teachers were being called to serve in World War I. She thought up the Boxcar Children while at home, sick. The stories were perfect for children, especially the majority (at least in her class) who did not speak English very well. She was criticized for displaying children with little parental supervision; her critics thought that this would encourage child rebellion. Her response was, however, that the children liked it for that very reason.
The series was originally published by Scott Foresman, starting in 1942. Today, Albert Whitman & Company publishes the extremely popular series of 19 stories. Other authors have contributed to the series, adding approximately 90 books to the series. In her later life, before she died at age 89, Warner became a volunteer for the American Red Cross and assisted other charitable organizations. |
