![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
This is the original book published in 1924. I have no idea how I missed this for so long, because it’s SO up my alley.
Four children are left alone when their alcoholic father dies, their mother having died long ago. Their father told them their only relative is their grandfather and he’s mean, so the kids flee into the night rather than be sent to him. That is the last time anyone will think of their father; this is not a book about grief and trauma.
The kids find an abandoned boxcar in the woods near a town, and proceed to transform it into a cozy home. The oldest boy works in town to make money for food, and events eventually reveal that their grandfather is in that very town and is a very nice person who will give them a good home. But really the story is about four kids living cozily in a boxcar in the woods, making stews and rescuing cups from the dump and digging a swimming hole. If that is something you like, you will certainly enjoy this story.
I know this has a bazillion sequels. What are the sequels about? Do they also feature boxcar homemaking coziness?
Four children are left alone when their alcoholic father dies, their mother having died long ago. Their father told them their only relative is their grandfather and he’s mean, so the kids flee into the night rather than be sent to him. That is the last time anyone will think of their father; this is not a book about grief and trauma.
The kids find an abandoned boxcar in the woods near a town, and proceed to transform it into a cozy home. The oldest boy works in town to make money for food, and events eventually reveal that their grandfather is in that very town and is a very nice person who will give them a good home. But really the story is about four kids living cozily in a boxcar in the woods, making stews and rescuing cups from the dump and digging a swimming hole. If that is something you like, you will certainly enjoy this story.
I know this has a bazillion sequels. What are the sequels about? Do they also feature boxcar homemaking coziness?
From:
no subject