This New Twist on The Boxcar Children is the Best

If you’ve been around children’s books a while, you’ve probably heard about The Boxcar Children.

But let me tell you this.

There’s something new with this old series The Boxcar Children that has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in a book.

As a child, I remember loving this book. The main characters – Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny – became my inspiration for finding anything that looked like a car from a train and setting up house.

In case you don’t remember, the first book tells of four orphaned children, ages 5 – 14, who are searching for a home. They find a boxcar in the woods and begin making their place a home. The book is written at a second or third grade level, told in a way to ignite empathy to the listeners, and appeals to ages as young as 4 or 5.

As an adult, I fell in love with the books again. The series never says how their parents died. But they must have been amazing parents to raise the kind of children they did.

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