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Abate, Michelle Ann – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
This essay provides much-needed critical attention and historical context to the long-neglected 1924 edition of Gertrude Chandler Warner's "The Box-Car Children." Commonly overshadowed by its more recent and more popular 1942 version--known as "The Boxcar Children"--this earlier edition calls attention to the original cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Childrens Literature, Historical Interpretation, Didacticism