![]() ![]() ![]() Her goal was to write something that was easy to read yet still exciting for her young students. But, that wasn't her original intention: A first-grade teacher, Warner wrote The Boxcar Children to address some of the shortcomings she saw in children's literature. Warner's talents were such that she was able to delude generations of readers into thinking that sleeping in a boxcar sounds like a good idea. ![]() This, it turns out, was a winning combination. Since being a writer who lived in a boxcar wasn't altogether practical, she chose the next best thing: writing about living in a boxcar. The girl's other dream was to become a famous writer. She spent a lot of her free time just watching them go by, thinking about what it would be like to have a boxcar of her very own. Growing up near a railroad station, Warner was fascinated by trains. Forget a fancy house with a swimming pool or a frog prince or a big pile of adorable puppies-young Gertrude Chandler Warner had one dream, and that dream was to live in a dirty metal box. Once upon a time, at the turn of the 20th century, there lived a young girl who wanted to live in a caboose. ![]()
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