An introduction to Gertrude Chandler Warner, the author of The Boxcar Children series of books begins this podcast.The style of writing was purposefully simple and easy to read because she wanted her readers to love reading books as much as her and she was very successful at this. The book is one of the all-time favourite read aloud books for young children. A brief summary of the book and then six ideas of how to use the book as a teaching and learning tool.