This biography talks about Gertrude Chandler Warner's childhood living across the street from the railroad tracks, her bouts with poor health, and her rewarding teaching career. It also tells about her inspiration for The Boxcar Children.
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From Publishers Weekly
For a more in-depth look at the author, fans will want to pick up the newly released paperback edition of Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children by Mary Ellen Ellsworth, illus. by Marie DeJohn, which chronicles Warner's early years as an elementary schoolteacher in her hometown of Putnam, Conn., her work in children's publishing and the writing of the much-loved adventures. (Sept.)
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6. This lively and engaging biography is well organized, following Warner's life from her childhood to her death at age 89 in 1979. The children's author's lifelong love of reading, teaching, and writing is clearly visualized from the text. Details of her methods of teaching are given, such as how she "decorated fancy hand-blown Easter eggs for every girl and boy in her class." DeJohn's black-and-white pencil-and-ink drawings add charm and warmth to the story. Ellsworth has also included six pages of photographs, such as Warner at age 10 and the railroad yard at Putnam, CT, that was the model for the "Boxcar Children" mysteries. Sources include the publisher's pages of autobiographical material; personal interviews with colleagues, former students, and others who knew Warner; and newspaper articles. A must-purchase for any library that has an avid following of this popular author's books.?Olga Kuharets, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This book was very interesting. If you are a Gertrude Chandler Warner fan this is for you. It does not, however, inform you of why and how so many people are able to use her name since her death. Clearly none of the books since her death come close in quality to those that she herself wrote.
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WHEN GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER was little, she lived in a house right across the street from a railroad station. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Israel Putnam, Red Cross, United States, Esther Welles, Grandfather Carpenter, Grandmother Carpenter, New York City, Edgar Warner, South Main Street New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
WHEN GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER was little, she lived in a house right across the street from a railroad station. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Israel Putnam, Red Cross, United States, Esther Welles, Grandfather Carpenter, Grandmother Carpenter, New York City, Edgar Warner, South Main Street New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (Boxcar Children Mysteries) by Gertrude Chandler Warner on 4 pages
- Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11) by Gertrude Chandler Warner on page 57, and Back Matter
- The Yellow House Mystery (The Boxcar Children, No. 3) (Boxcar Children Mysteries) by Gertrude Chandler Warner in Back Matter
- Surprise Island (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #2) by Gertrude Chandler Warner in Back Matter
- Snowbound Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #13) by Gertrude Chandler Warner in Back Matter
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- How Is My Fourth Grader Doing in School?: What to Expect and How to Help by Jennifer Richard Jacobson on page 69
- The Boxcar Children, 60th Anniversary Edition by Gertrude Chandler Warner in Back Matter
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