[Warner Gertrude Chandler] The Boxcar Children Mysteries(The Boxcar Children #1-12) - epub - zeke23seeders: 1
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Description Boxcar Children Bookshelf (The Boxcar Children #1-12) by Gertrude Chandler Warner 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 · rating details · 292 ratings · 2 reviews 23 A deluxe Boxcar bookcase that contains 12 titles - The Boxcar Children Mysteries #1 through #12. Also included are Boxcar activities and poster and accordion bookmark with title checklist. The bookcase can expands to hold up to 32 books. I believe the writer did a very good job. I have read these over several times. It identified with my life. I had a uncle and aunt who took us in when we did not have anywhere to go...  Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in Putnam, Connecticut, on April 16, 1890, to Edgar and Jane Warner. Her family included a sister, Frances, and a brother, John. From the age of five, she dreamed of becoming an author. She wrote stories for her Grandfather Carpenter, and each Christmas she gave him one of these stories as a gift. Today, Ms. Warner is best remembered as the author of THE BOXCAR CHILDREN MYSTERIES. As a child, Gertrude enjoyed many of the things that girls enjoy today. She loved furnishing a dollhouse with handmade furniture and she liked to read. Her favorite book was ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Often on Sundays after church, Gertrude enjoyed trips to visit her grandparents' farm. Along the way, she and Frances would stop to pick the wildflowers they both loved. Gertrude's favorite flower was the violet. Her family was a very musical one. They were able to have a family orchestra, and Gertrude enjoyed playing the cello. Her father had brought her one from New York ---a cello, a bow, a case and an instruction book. All together, he paid $14. Later, as an adult, she began playing the pipe organ and sometimes substituted for the church organist. Due to ill health, Ms. Warner never finished high school. She left in the middle of her second year and studied with a tutor. Then, in 1918, when teachers were called to serve in World War I, the school board asked her to teach first grade. She had forty children in the morning and forty more in the afternoon. Ms. Warner wrote, "I was asked or begged to take this job because I taught Sunday School. But believe me, day school is nothing like Sunday School, and I sure learned by doing --- I taught in that same room for 32 years, retiring at 60 to have more time to write." Eventually, Ms. Warner attended Yale, where she took several teacher training courses. Related Torrents
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