cover image Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children

Mary Ellen Ellsworth. Albert Whitman & Company, $6.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-8075-2838-9

For a more in-depth look at the author, fans will want to pick up the newly released paperback edition of Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children by Mary Ellen Ellsworth, illus. by Marie DeJohn, which chronicles Warner's early years as an elementary schoolteacher in her hometown of Putnam, Conn., her work in children's publishing and the writing of the much-loved adventures. (Sept.)