Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she lived her whole life. Because of poor health, she did not finish high school. But she loved to read and write, and she wrote her first book when she was just nine years old. When World War I broke out, she was called upon to teach first grade; she continued to teach for thirty-two years, devoting herself to helping children learn while she continued her own writing. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always been fascinated by the trains that went right by the Warner home and had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight carWarner, Gertrude Chandler is the author of 'Boxcar Children' with ISBN 9780807508480 and ISBN 0807508489.