This is the first of the shameful series of Boxcar Children books that were written long after the author’s death. The first 19 are wonderfully written classics of children’s literature. The rest, for the most part, are pointless fluff, not engaging for parents or most children. If you are reading them all to your children, and in order, they will also become very confused here: Throughout Warner’s original series, the characters aged and matured quite a bit. Starting with this book, they are inexplicably returned to and perpetually stuck at their original ages.
Rating: 1 / 5