The Boxcar Children: The Boxcar Children Time to Read, Level 2

by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Created by), Shane Clester (Illustrator)

Overview

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. The only way they can stay together as a family is to make it on their own. So when the children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, they decide to call it home—and become the Boxcar Children! Adapted from the feature film of the same name, this early reader allows children to step into reading with the story that launched the beloved Boxcar Children Mysteries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807508398
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/01/2018
Series:	The Boxcar Children Early Readers
Edition description:	None
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	6.31(w) x 9.31(h) x 0.36(d)
Lexile:	440L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.

Largely self-taught, Shane Clester has been a professional illustrator since 2005. He began working in comics and storyboards before transitioning to his true passion—children’s books. Shane lives in Florida with his wife and two children.