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The Boxcar Children

The Boxcar Children Mysteries, Book 1

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The Boxcar Children

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Narrated by: Aimee Lilly
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One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Can they find a home where they can stay together as a family?

©1989 Gertrude Chandler Warner (P)2018 Oasis Audio Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery & Suspense Kids Mystery

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Hooked on The Box Car Children

Our kids (4,6,8,10) loved the story and are now hooked on the series, so we will continue listening through the books.
We like that the characters are given different voices, it's just a shame that the narrator has gone with some fairly irritating voices for some of the characters. Jessie has a sweet sounding voice and Violet's is neither here nor there but the boys' voices are quite off putting.
Henry sounds a bit rough, it's bareable but just doesn't seem fitting to his character and Benny's voice is just plain irritating and not at all like his character (a sweet little boy).
It's a real shame as a voice can have huge affects on how you perceive a character and my kids now think differently about each character than they would have had they not heard these voice depictions of them.

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