Boxcar Children : #1

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Summary: This is one of the best Boxcar Children books!!
Review: We (Sarah & Casey) had been reading other Boxcar Children Mysteries, when we decided to find out how it all started. We weren't disappointed! We found out how Jessie got Watch and how Benny got his pink cup. We also found out how they met Mr. Alden. If you like other Boxcar Children books, you'll love this one.

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Summary: The power of a book.
Review: Anyone doubting the power of books has only to skim through your customers' reviews for this small obscure book. How many of us were infuenced by it to become life long readers! Like so many others I, too, found it when I was just beginning to read. A real book, with pages of text that I could understand. And the story was great - self-reliant and adventuresome kids just like me. I couldn't find it when my children were small, but I bought it for my grandchildren.

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Summary: Best loved book of my childhood
Review: I read this book probably 15 times when I was in the 3rd grade. I loved it. This is a timeless book--I am now 24. I think it teaches children to be greatful for the things they have. I am now purchasing it for my children, and hope they get the same enjoyment as I did.

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Summary: Boxcar Children was the first book I ever read: I was 7.
Review: I still recall with some clarity the closeness I felt to the children as I made my way through this book in the second grade. I remember that I was fully immersed, and that I immediately checked out other books in search of a similar experience. I became a reader for life. Many times I have wondered if this was an out-of-print title, a well known book, or simply an obscure children's adventure which happened to be in our Holy Cross School library in Mendota, Il. On a whim, I stopped into Amazon and I was ecstatic to learn that it is a classic, and that I can(and will) purchase the entire series for my own children.

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Summary: Wonderful bedtime story. Children love it.
Review: My child loved this book as much as I did when I was her age. We read a chapter or two before bed, and she couldn't wait til the next night for the next chapter. We look forward to reading about other adventures of "The Boxcar Children".

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Summary: heartwarming
Review: i read it as a child .i am in my forties now and i still remember how riveted i was to the pages as i read about the childrens fears and feats.its truly one of the few good memories of my own struggles of childhood.

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Summary: One of my absolute favorite books from childhood
Review: I read The Boxcar Children when I was in third grade and I must've checked it out of the school library 15 more times after that. A truly great read for children, thoroughly enjoyable and hard to put down...I would even read it at night under the covers with a flashlight. I now have two very young children of my own and you can bet I will be getting this book for them when they're 7 or 8.

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Summary: This is the book that started my love of reading
Review: I can still remember the day in the 4th grade I checked out this book from the Crescent School library. Up until that time I had never read any book of substance, just those 5 minute "See Jane run" titles that are so forgettable. This book had me rivited. I was so proud that I had read such an "adult" book. There was such a sense of accomplishment, and the story was so interesting that I blew through it in just a few days. A year earlier I was held back in the 3rd grade and was not a very successful student. This book changed all of that for me. For the first time reading was something fun, and not just homework. After I read it I wanted to read more of these kinds of books but the school year was ending. That summer I enrolled in the Public Library Reading Club and read 75 more books. Today I look back on THE BOXCAR CHILDREN with fond memories. I went looking for it as a Christmas Present for my brother's son who is now in the 3rd grade. I was suprised to find that it was published during the heart of World War II in 1942. Great things endure and obviously I was not the only one to have discovered this book. I want to thank Mrs. Evelyn Wilkerson, that wonderful librarian who suggested the book for me. She gave me such a wonderful Christmas gift, the gift of reading for the enjoyment and pleasure of it. I totally recommend this title for any young person!!!! I always seem to be in need of Presents, I think I will go back and buy a few extra copies just in case :-) Ed Henderson Associate Editor of Scouter's Journal Magazine Past Chairman of the Spalding County Library Board

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Summary: Read it in 1947, have spent fifty years living the story.
Review: I read Boxcar Children in a three room school house in New Preston Conn. in 1947. I was seven and my father had been killed in France in 1944. But here were children who had lost or misplaced all their parents, and yet, kept on truckin. I found that it was out of print when mychildren were growing up, but I hope my husband orders it for me for Christmas. I have spent the past fifty years losing family and yet truckin on, I still go to the dump to look for treasures, and I am very close to my two sisters. I live in Northern California now, and spend a lot of time walking through the woods. Maybe soon, I'll stumble across a boxcar, furnish it, and live happily ever after.

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Summary: Brings Back Very Joyful Memories
Review: My mother read this book to me when I was about 5 years old. I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago. I am now purchasing it for my 5 year old grandson. My husband also loved the Boxcar children and remembers they bought a cow who they named Grace but he can't remember the name of the book. END