The Boxcar Children

The kids and I finished reading The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. This is the first book of the Boxcar Children. I know they have several books that follow about the Boxcar Children Mysteries. However when I was maybe nine I read the first book and loved it, but I never read much of the mysteries. I thought that the kids would like this book since they like trains so much. They loved it. I thought I was just going to read a chapter each night but they kept begging for me to read more so we ended up reading about three chapters each night. The book has thirteen chapters so we finished it very quickly.

I love that when they hear new books they pretend play that they are the characters in the books. They do that a lot with the Henry and Mudge and Annie and Snowball books. Now they have been playing that they are Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny from The Boxcar Children.

Tomorrow we have to look at through our bookcases and find a new chapter book to read together.

Before this book we read Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner again. We have read the books all the way through twice but we have read the stories several times but not in order. We have also checked out the books on CD and listened to them several times. We all love reading about Winnie the Pooh. I like the books a lot more than I did the first time I read them. The last chapter in The House at Pooh Corner makes me cry so much that I can hardly read. I also love the recording of it. The reader does a great job with the emotion of it and listening to it makes me cry.