The Boxcar Children Quotes

“One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“How they love the old boxcar!”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“cake of soap”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“mean?”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Night Is Turned into Day”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“What shall we do? Where shall we go?” thought Jessie. The wind was blowing more and more clouds across the sky, and the lightning was very near. She walked a little way into the woods, looking for a place to go out of the rain. “Where shall we go?” she thought again. Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It was an old boxcar. “What a good house that will be in the rain!” she thought.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“She smiled politely at the woman, but the woman did not smile. She looked at Henry as he put his hand in his pocket for the money. She looked cross, but she sold him the bread. Jessie was looking around, too, and she saw a long red bench under each window of the bakery. The benches had flat red pillows on them. “Will you let us stay here for the night?” Jessie asked. “We could sleep on those benches, and tomorrow we would help you wash the dishes and do things for you.” Now the woman liked this. She did not like to wash dishes very well. She would like to have a big boy to help her with her”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“where they had come from. The baker’s wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“top of those. Violet filled her arms with brush”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“express." (He”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“rolled the door shut, and then it really began to rain.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“of the boxcar and was just right for a step.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Moore’s and stay, until the surprise comes.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Watch. He is her dog. She took the thorn out of his foot.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“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.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children