The mystery of the forgo.., p.7
The Mystery of the Forgotten Family,
p.7
The night before the children left, they gathered in the living room to double-check their packing list. Watch rested his head on his paws. His eyes looked sad. “I’m afraid he knows we’re going away,” said Jessie. The children liked having Watch along on their adventures, and Watch loved being outdoors, but Camp Survival did not allow pets.
“Don’t worry,” said Henry. “Mrs. McGregor will give him extra treats and let him run through the sprinkler.”
Violet nuzzled Watch’s head. “She does spoil him when we’re away.”
The next morning, Mrs. McGregor and Watch waited as Henry helped Grandfather lift the duffel bags into the back of the minivan. One by one, each child hugged their sad-eyed dog.
“Time to go,” called Grandfather. The children scrambled into the van. As they buckled up, Grandfather walked around to the back. He moved their duffels then closed the door. Soon they were on their way to Camp Survival.
It wasn’t until they reached the highway that they found they had a stowaway.
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GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER discovered when she was teaching that many readers who like an exciting story could find no books that were both easy and fun to read. She decided to try to meet this need, and her first book, The Boxcar Children, quickly proved she had succeeded.
Miss Warner drew on her own experiences to write the mystery. As a child she spent hours watching trains go by on the tracks opposite her family home. She often dreamed about what it would be like to set up housekeeping in a caboose or freight car—the situation the Alden children find themselves in.
While the mystery element is central to each of Miss Warner’s books, she never thought of them as strictly juvenile mysteries. She liked to stress the Aldens’ independence and resourcefulness and their solid New England devotion to using up and making do. The Aldens go about most of their adventures with as little adult supervision as possible—something else that delights young readers.
Miss Warner lived in Putnam, Connecticut, until her death in 1979. During her lifetime, she received hundreds of letters from girls and boys telling her how much they liked her books.
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 and fifty books.
Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Forgotten Family
