tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post7246759039129240657..comments2023-11-09T02:37:20.943-06:00Comments on Having Fun at Home: Read Alouds for Preschoolers: The Boxcar ChildrenKatey http://www.blogger.com/profile/04453635816707138492noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-15920065102817765742011-07-21T10:57:24.085-05:002011-07-21T10:57:24.085-05:00Love this one. Thanks for the reminder. . .Love this one. Thanks for the reminder. . .Allison Armstrongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-87740009765346610962011-07-20T11:09:55.263-05:002011-07-20T11:09:55.263-05:00Affection is such a great word for what I felt in ...Affection is such a great word for what I felt in this first book!Having Fun at Homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-73566053528210799382011-07-20T11:06:00.912-05:002011-07-20T11:06:00.912-05:00Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the first dozen or ...Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the first dozen or so herself, then someone else added the later ones. I made the mistake of getting one of the later ones - they lack the language and...affection? that I appreciate in the first ones. GCW clearly loved children, both her readers and the ones in her stories. I didn't get that vibe in the later ones.Heidinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-58552784759252685062011-07-14T15:09:01.113-05:002011-07-14T15:09:01.113-05:00My boys, older than your kids, enjoyed this book l...My boys, older than your kids, enjoyed this book last summer. I never read the later ones, but remember loving this first one as a kid; their ingenuity was inspiring. Audio books are great aren't they? I've been surprised at how much my 8 yr old son, who is not a big fan of reading himself, loves the audio books. Now w/the mp3s you can get from the library, he feels super cool listening to them.Callienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-68696965168370126212011-07-13T23:42:09.398-05:002011-07-13T23:42:09.398-05:00Thank you! This is helpful!Thank you! This is helpful!Having Fun at Homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-44874764256961851852011-07-13T23:41:09.429-05:002011-07-13T23:41:09.429-05:00Thanks, Sarah. That was exactly the kind of thing...Thanks, Sarah. That was exactly the kind of thing I was curious to know!Having Fun at Homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-5206653453743659212011-07-13T16:40:41.380-05:002011-07-13T16:40:41.380-05:00I avoid the ones that say "Created by" G...I avoid the ones that say "Created by" Gertrude Chandler Warner. In the books she wrote, the children get a little older each book, till by the end Henry is in college. In the "Created by" books, they all start out by saying that 5-year-old Benny does this, etc, going back to the ages they were in the first book. I also thought they seemed to be written in a much later era than the simpler, more innocent time in which the originals were written. Blueskyandsunshine2006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-55138636788438738772011-07-12T19:01:21.097-05:002011-07-12T19:01:21.097-05:00The second book was also good--the children live o...The second book was also good--the children live on an island by themselves for the summer. After that they shift from being exercises in self-reliance to mysteries. They are still entertaining, but they lose some of the appeal of the original. They also would be less easy for a preschooler to follow. In addition, many of these later books were not actually written by Gertrude Chandler Warner.Sarahwright99noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799900948004525705.post-33203637810050169992011-07-12T16:48:38.665-05:002011-07-12T16:48:38.665-05:00I loved reading these books to when I was a kid an...I loved reading these books to when I was a kid and also reading them to my kids.Rose @ Walnut Acrehttp://embracinglife-rose.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com