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Would you consider these Living Literature? Someone gave me 40 of these books yesterday! Of course, I am excited yet unsure at the same time. I have #1-#35 plus a few other various ones.
Someone told me only the first 19 are written by the original author. Would you only keep the first 19, or would you keep them all? Thanks 
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We have quite a few of these, as well. I consider them good for beginning readers ... to encourage them with enjoyable stories, although not top-rate literature, per se.
Just MHO,
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As I have grown older (and crankier  ), I have a new standard for living literature...can I stand to listen to it in the car? If not, then it is not living  .
The Boxcar Children books have been enjoyed by my young readers, but I cannot bear to listen. Maybe it's the reader's tone of voice, as I have read the first one aloud, and it was OK...like JoAnna says: not top-rate! And it's not just because they are children's books...I love kid-lit, but it has to be really good.
Ami, I'd take the gift of 40 of them greatfully, but don't be surprised if your kids read a few and leave them for something better. Or maybe they will read through them all. Kids never cease to surprise!
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My 4th grader likes them, even though they are beneath her reading level. I think it is because there is usually a mystery involved.
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My kids have really enjoyed them - I think they're especially good for beginning readers and, yes, they do like the mystery.
I do think the first 19 are better. The later ones get a bit PC (you would never see Henry cooking in the first part). Also, the first 19 are best read in order - the kids grow up. In the later books, the kids are frozen at one point in time. There's nothing objectionable in the newer ones (and I wouldn't struggle to find room for them like I would the first 19), but my kids didn't enjoy them as much.
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I don't know if they're "living books" or not, but my son enjoyed them a great deal. He went right through them. We didn't bother with the later books. It didn't really interest me to have him read them.
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Topic: Boxcar Children Books?
