The Lighthouse Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries) - Softcover

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807545465 ISBN 13: 9780807545461

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1990

Synopsis

Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior.

About this title

About the Author:

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children.

From Booklist:

In this bare-bones graphic-novel adaptation of a Boxcar Children story, the Alden children move with their grandfather into a lighthouse and are given cause to wonder about a local fisherman’s son as well as what is disturbing their own dog in the nighttime. Awkward art dangles the children’s expressions between manga and unexplained sadness, while the original independence of the foursome in the text novels is undercut by Grandfather’s regular interventions here. The attraction of a dependable cast and comfortable pacing makes this good for collections where the series has gained popularity. Grades 2-4. --Francisca Goldsmith

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0807545465
• ISBN 13: 9780807545461
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Cunningham David