By: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Copyright 1942, 1950, 1969, 1977
Albert Whitman & Company
Non fiction
2nd or 3rd grade
154 Pages
Four children (Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny) are running away from a gradfather that they have never met. Their parents are dead, and they are supposed to go live with him. They come across a box car in the middle of a forest clearing when they are running away from a baker and his wife because they were wanting to keep the three older kids and send the youngest to an orphanige. The children weren't going to let that happen to them so they ran from them. They started turrning the boxcar into their new home. They even found a dog and named him Watch. The children would go to the dump and search for dishes so they could use them to eat and drink out of. Henry would go into the close town and work for a doctor and would get paid then go buy food for them to eat that night. They had a pretty nice set up there for them. The doctor relizes who the kids are, their grandfather had been searching for them and offering a $5,000 reward for his grandchildren. Henry even meets him at one point when he wins a race and neither of them knew who the other was. Well Violet gets sick and since they can't go to the hospital Henry gets the doctor to help. He takes care of violet and also lets the childrens grandfather know about the children. He stays with the doctor as the kids also stay with him while violet is getting better. The kids get to know him and do not hate him. The doctor soon lets Henry know who this man is, it is their grandfather. They don't hate this man, the love him. They all go to live with him and love it so much. Soon, though, they get home sick for their boxcar. Their grandfather moves the boxcar to his house, and the children are so happy. They live happily ever after.
I think I would recomend this book to those kids who are just starting on reading chapter books. It is an easy read and it reads kind of how a kid thinks, I got really confused sometimes because of it.
I dont think there really was anything wrong with this book.
I am sad because I didn't really like this book, I just could not get into it. Everytime I thought a good plot was going on it changed subject and was now somewhere totally different. I got lost, reading a childrens book.
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