
The Pumpkin Head Mystery
Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Narrator: Tim Gregory
Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Oasis Audio
Published: 12/14/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective

Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Narrator: Tim Gregory
Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Oasis Audio
Published: 12/14/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective
The Boxcar Children Series was created by Gertrude Chandler Warner, a teacher, when she realized that there were few, if any, books for children that were both easy and fun to read. She drew on her own experiences in writing the mysteries. As a child, she had spent hours watching trains near her home, and often dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or freight car. In each story, she chose a special setting and introduced unpredictable, unusual or eccentric characters, to help highlight the Aldens’ independence and resourcefulness. Miss Warner lived in Putnam, Massachusetts until her death in 1979.
Very cute read and good company while diamond painting.......more
Two and a half stars, rounding up to three. I've been reading this series in order, but I'd only made my way through the first twenty or so when I skipped ahead to this. (I'm doing an October reading challenge where one of the tasks is a book with a Halloween cover, and it's surprisingly difficult t......more
Inspired by my friend’s re-reading of all the American Girl books, and by my recent encounter with the Big Boy steam locomotive, I decided to give this book a go. Initially, I was disappointed to find that the boxcar children no longer reside in an actual boxcar, but times are a changing, so I get it......more
A new Boxcar children mystery! A great fall read with my 8 year old son. The Aldens help out at a family friend's farm and get involved in a seasonal mystery regarding a missing scarecrow, tricks/property damage, and more. This surprisingly generated good conversation about motivation for trickery a......more
Book 124 of the Boxcar Children series. There was a lot going on in this one. Least of which to say the bad guy wasn’t what our who you’d think. This was one of the rare twists that aside from corporate greed, the crime was done through a misguided thought of helping. This was a good one but not you......more