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 1...
The Chocolate Sunday Mystery: Mr. Brown, the new ice cream shop owner, asks the Boxcar youngsters for aid in acquiring out who is sabotaging his company by stealing ice cream, breaking windows, and otherwise damaging his shop. Simultaneous.
The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain: When the Alden youngsters go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a area mentioned to be inhabited by a ghost trying to find buried treasure, they start to think somebody or anything is struggling to scare them.
The Mystery of the Spiders Clue: When an elderly friend is injured, the Alden kids provide to aid him with his window-washing company in their tiny town of Greenfield and agree to aid him resolve a riddle that has arrive.
The Ghost Ship Mystery: During a trip to New England, the Aldens discover 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 writer, mostly of children's stories. She was many well-known for beginning the prevalent Boxcar Children book series.
Born in Putnam, Connecticut, Warner dreamed of being a well-known writer within the age of five. Her favorite book was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Being in a musical family, she was virtually predisposed to play an instrument; in her case, she chose the cello, and her dad purchased her a cello kit at a young age. But, as a result of her frequent disease, Warner not completed significant school. After exiting in her sophomore year, she learned from a tutor and completed her secondary knowledge. In 1918, while she was training Sunday School, Warner was called to teach initial level, because man teachers were being called to serve in World War I. She thought up the Boxcar Children while at house, sick. The stories were best for kids, particularly most (at least in her class) who didn't speak English well. She was criticized for showing kids with small parental supervision; her critics thought that this would motivate child rebellion. Her reaction was, yet, that the youngsters liked it for that pretty reason.
The series was initially published by Scott Foresman, beginning in 1942. Today, Albert Whitman & Company publishes the very prevalent series of 19 stories. Other authors have added to the series, adding around 90 books to the series. In her later lifetime, before she died at age 89, Warner became a volunteer for the American Red Cross and assisted alternative charitable companies. |
