This book is OK. The plot is weak and too unrealistic as wellas boring. Somehow the end is pretty good though.

The story sometimes becomes too simple,but overall it'sexciting,the mystery has several unexpected and interestingly resolvedhappenings.Not the best,but a nice reading.Not as much about the children and their relationships,but basically centered on an okay mystery.

The boxcar children The Cereal box mystery by Gertrude chandler warner, is a magnificent book. It is a story of 4 children: Benny, violet, henry and Jessie, who are the boxcar children. They have not one mystery but two mysteries at the same time. At the jewlry store a ruby set is stolen. Later Benny's favorite silver stars
Stolen too recommend this book to people who like the creal box mystery.
There more books in the series like The Niagara Falls mystery and so on.

I understand that children love these books and love mysteries. I did too, when I was young. (actually, I like some now too. :-) )

Sadly, I found the characters to be very shallow and too cheerful. When the art supplies were stolen, the children basically said, "Oh darn. Well, let's buy some more." When their work was destroyed they said, "Oh, shucks. Well, we'll do it again." When they started their business to raise money for the hospital (which I though was a great thing to suggest to children), they *instantly* had a full load of clients and the ability to carry out every task perfectly.

The kids are just too perfect to be realistic. Other than that, my 8 yo seems to be very enthusiastic about the series. If they are properly researched, children may learn a few snippets of information with each one they read. If the child puzzles over the mystery, they might serve a little purpose of stimulating creative though.

The dissipearing friend mystery is an exellent book and once you read it you can't put it down. The boxcar children find a new friend but for some reason she keeps dissapearing! Watch out for the very peculiar ending! I'd addvise 6-8 year olds to read this book.

What an insult to the world of children's literature!! It already tells you something that on most of the Boxcar Children books, it doesn't even tell you the author, merely saying "Series created by Gertrude Chandler Warren." The characters are flat and inane, the plot is one-dimensional and predictable but still completely outlandish (I mean, finding out who put purple ink in the pool? come on!). I could go on and on about these ROTTEN books, but now all I'm going to say is...someday you'll be sorry if you give your children these books to read instead of the beautiful, humoristic, thought-provoking and stimulating books that intelligent and thoughtful people have written for children.

Grandfather takes the Alden children to New York City, where they find excitement right in their hotel when someone switches the salt and sugar in the coffee shop, steals from the guests, and dyes the swimming pool purple. Why would someone do this. Te Boxcar children are going to get to the bottom of this.

This book was one of the best Boxcar children books that there is. It was well written and really suprised me with the way that it turned out. If you are looking for a good kids mytery book, this is the one to choose.

I strongly advise you not to let your kids read this book. The boringness could disturb them. It could cause permanent damage! In other words, don't read this book. --Andy, 11 years old

This book is perfect for people of any ages to read. Though mainly for kids. I would reccomend this book to people who like mysterys and to people who like the boxcar chidren series.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was very interesting. I recommend this book to other kids.

Oh, wow! A turtle shell! So cool! I can't believe it! Oh, Peter, sharks! Far out! Did WE get attacked by sharks? Of course not. (At least, I don't think we did. I was asleep and don't really remember.) We just heard a story about somebody who did a long time ago, and that was cool enough. WOW! A talking bird! (If you want to see one up close, just go to a pet shop. Don't bother getting stranded on a deserted island. It's not very safe out there.) Of course, we found Peter's mother and father. Basic Plot 101: Always end happy. Well, that's about all we can remember about this really cool mystery-- and what was the mystery again? We forgot. ~~~~written by the Boring Children--I mean, Boxcar Children~~~~ P.S. Madeline, thanks for refreshing our memories about this mystery! Oops, sorry, I keep using that word by mistake: "mystery." Anyway, now we don't have to re-read our own book. That's always a pain.

This book was a longer boxcar, and fun to read. But it got kind of boring after a while, and one day I just read two pages of it because I just thought it was so borring. But then it got good, and I finished it. At first you might think about just not reading it beacuse it's kind of boring in the first part, but after a little more reading it gets really good.

I used to read this and think it would be so fun to go to a tropical island with Lars and the Boxcar Children and live on sea biscuits.

I still find it a very good book. I'm not sure what the other reviewers mean about its being slow at the beginning - every story has to have a beginning. You can't jump into the action without a bit of setting or you fall flat. Anyway. I didn't find it slow.

I recommend it greatly, especially if you like stories of survival on remote islands.

The book name was the adventures of "Benny and Watch".
I think this book would be good for other people to read but it was a mystery story and I don't like mystery stories.

The name of My book is The adventures of Benny watch
The children's Dad died and they were scared of their Grandpa. This is a sad and happy story.

In this first book in the series, you meet Benny, Henry, Jessie and Violet, four children whose parents have died and have no where to go. They find an abandoned boxcar and call it home. The end is more surprising than you can imagine.

I like the book The Box Car Children. It was fun to read because they are kids like me that like to play on the coumputer. I also like the book because it was a mystery and I like mysteries . The Boxcar Children was an intesting story because the kids had to spy on a competing computer company that was trying to steal their ideas.

The best part of this book was when the kids went out to eat at a restaurant. They were trying to spy on the lady who worked for the other company. She had been stealing ideas from the kids' company. Once the kids found her at the restaurant, they brought the boss from their company there to see the lady. She had lied about being in a meeting.

The author did a good job describing the setting of the story. The main parts of the story took place at the QuestMaster Company. This is the company the kids got their computer from. Jerermy, the boss of this company, wanted the job to be fun. They had a basketball court outside, a pool table in their gameroom, and they were allowed to bring their pets with them to work. The Company is in an old bulding that looks like it is falling down on the outside but is really nice inside. The main conflict of this story was between two computer companies. A competitor was trying to steal the "Ringmaster II" game from the QuestMaster Company. An employee betrayed the QuestMaster Company by stealing the disk for the competitor.

When Grandfather buys Ringmaster, a CD- Rom, the Alden's have loved to play it. When Grandfather meets the owner of the company, QuestMaster, the Alden's get to test out Ringmaster 2! But soon, the computer is making real places on the screen and Andy, someone who is trying to be nice, is always where the Alden's are. There is a mysterious character named Nadje, who the Alden's think is Jane Driver, a girl who works at QuestMaster, and acts very mysterious. Then, Ned Porter, is always mysterious. Can the Alden's solve this mystery before Ringmaster 2 is sent to stores?

The biggest thing that bothered me about this book was that why a person would sew stolen jewels on a skating costume that was in plain sight of everyone. Children like the Aldens aren't smarter than grown-up dectectives. This book was really AWFUL!!

This is a great mystery. The diamonds are in the place you least expect. Two people get engaged in this book too. One of the characters is really funny. This is a good book if you like mysteries.

The story basically happens in one place,and the mystery isconfusing,with a few suspects,and until almost the end it's unclearwho is the troublemaker.It is interesting to read what the kids do all the time they are there(and nothing is close to being solved),but,as I said,not very exciting. END

When the children hear that Mr. Wood's cat, Spotzie, is missing, they immediately help out by putting up Lost Cat posters and going door-to-door with a photograph of the cat. The more they search, the more mysterious the situation becomes.