Worley, Rob M. The Boxcar Children: The Yellow House Mystery. Magic Wagon: 2009. ISBN: 9781602705883.
An engaging and fast-paced graphic novel, The Boxcare Children: The Yellow House Mystery story reads like a comic strip with full-page color illustrations to match. Our heroes return in this adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner‘s timeless tales. True to the original, Boxcar children fans will take pleasure in this new book. This time the Alden children help locate a lost man and solve a years old mystery. Their journey takes them to the back woods of Maine where they endure hunger, bears, and a rainstorm on an action packed adventure. Advancing the plot through hand drawn, rough sketch pictures allows even emergent readers to enjoy the exciting journey. The text is filled with conversation and a few concise narrations. Easy and inviting, action hungry youngsters will be satisfied.
Charlene Turner, Bowling Green State University, EDTL 6950
An engaging and fast-paced graphic novel, The Boxcare Children: The Yellow House Mystery story reads like a comic strip with full-page color illustrations to match. Our heroes return in this adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner‘s timeless tales. True to the original, Boxcar children fans will take pleasure in this new book. This time the Alden children help locate a lost man and solve a years old mystery. Their journey takes them to the back woods of Maine where they endure hunger, bears, and a rainstorm on an action packed adventure. Advancing the plot through hand drawn, rough sketch pictures allows even emergent readers to enjoy the exciting journey. The text is filled with conversation and a few concise narrations. Easy and inviting, action hungry youngsters will be satisfied.
Charlene Turner, Bowling Green State University, EDTL 6950
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