#boxcar children

[kazoosandfannypacks]

as always, I'd love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it's one of the "other" choices!

[sorrybutiforgotmyusername]

obsessed with how different the first boxcar children book is from the rest of the series. like i haven't read any of them in ages but iirc it was like

boxcar children book 1: they are living in a boxcar

boxcar children books 2-160: they are solving mysteries

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

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boxcar children vibes

[stonedscully]

You know, I loved the original Boxcar Children book, where they're actually living in the boxcar and evading their unknowingly kind grandfather, but I always wished they would have kept the survivalist aspect of the books more instead of turning the kids into detectives. Like what if they started out the same, where they're going on a homeschool trip across the country, and they get lost in the desert, or in a plane crash, or running from the law? Way more interesting than a thinly veiled Hardy Boys knockoff imo

[purplegirltournament]

[the-grove]

Something we have recalled. It was actually an Animorph fanfic/forum rp thing that actually cemented our understanding of fossils. This is because we thought it would be a really cool idea for the animorph kids to sneak into a museum and have to try to touch fossils to get like super strong dinosaurs forms. Before we kind of knew that they were just rocks. But someone pointing out it wouldnt be feasible because of that... sort of made everything synch together. That is also how we learned that even then a good chunk of displays are in facts casts/replicas and the fossils are usually stored elsewhere.

That second piece of knowledge would later be reaffirmed by reading a Boxcar Children book that took place in a museum.

[thewritingbecca]

The boxcar children to cottagecore anti-capitalist pipeline is a very comfy ride with pretty flowers. You cannot convince me otherwise.

[kahran042]

"He especially likes children barbecued with a steak sauce and honey glaze."

[potato-head-kids]

The fear of falling apart - in which the Boxcar Children don’t get adopted by a rich relative, and angst ensues

I feel like myself again - in which Skull/Drunk Guy finds a tiny, meowing new reason to stay sober

If a tree falls - in which Evan Hansen is a homeworld gem desperately trying to hide his social anxiety from the Diamonds

[picturebookshelf]

The Boxcar Children: Bus Station Mystery

Story: Gertrude Chandler Warner -- Art: David Cunningham Original edition: 1974 -- This edition: 1991

[find-y0ur-j0y]

Does anyone else dream of running away from everything, living in an abandoned box car and working odd jobs for the local doctor, Only to then be found and taken to live with a caring (and rich) family member... Or is it just me?

[fluffelhighwind]

I've been rereading the Boxcar Children books, and it's so funny how much John Carter is in the original books (he's arguably a more important character than Watch is, since Watch is barely in most of the original books), especially since I don't think he's in any of the newer ones.

[afropuffsstudios]

Book Spotlight 📚

[fabiansociety]

every time the wholesome vs weird discourse crosses my timeline and it seems like folks are lining up for one and not the other i get so cross-eyed. you need both? you need stupid skyhooked happy ending wish fulfillment bullshit and you need visceral upsetting flensing wish fulfillment and trying to get rid of either of them is damaging. you need the boxcar children and you need hogg, it's not one or the other, it's both, at different times or simultaneously, stop insisting that they both don't have their purposes.