#boxcar kid

[afropuffsstudios]

Book Spotlight 📚

#afropuffsstudios #afropuffs studios #booklr #bookblr #books & libraries #reading #reading books #boxcar children #boxcar kid #box car kid #box car kids #box car children #children's books #90s kids books

[kazoosandfannypacks]

as always, I'd love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it's one of the "other" choices!

#books #bookworm #reader asks #mystery #detectives #nany drew #hardy boys #boxcar children #mary kate and ashley #encyclopedia brown #wishbone #bailey school kids #happy hollisters #bobsy twins

[aquared]

midnight crew based / inspired kids or something

i have been spinning them around in my head like a microwave for 3 days now and they make me so happy

their names are jack ( original i know ), coby , dean , and hyde respectively methinks

EDIT : IF U SEE THIS DONT REBLOG THIS ONE REBLOG THE RESPRITES FROM MY ALT THEYRE WAY BETTER !!!! WAY WAY BETTER ! https://www.tumblr.com/apochryphalantithesis/740274504979382272/i-love-editing-their-outfits-theyre-like-little

#aquared homestuck au where the midnight crew are the kids and there are some other guys too i think #homestuck #homestuck fankid #?? i guess #the midnight crew #spades slick #clubs deuce #diamonds droog #hearts boxcars #shit what else do i tag this with #hm #sinks away into my little hidey hole #also id appreciate feedback on the names

[w3bkinz-t0yb0x]

books i was read in elementary school 📚

#nostalgia #childhood nostalgia #90s kids #2000s kids #90s kid #2000s kid #nostalgiacore #2000s nostalgia #childhood memories #wonder book #out of my mind #hatchet book #the boxcar children #books #kids books

[axestuck]

i can stop listening to can't take off my eyes off of you now

#hearts boxcars #the midnight crew #midnight crew #who are we kidding i'll listen to it seven more times #also i unlocked the secret of boxcars: round head

[failingcollege]

I loved the Boxcar Children when I was a kid, but only the first book. I thought it was lame once they were not longer surviving on their own in the woods.

#the boxcar children #books #kids books #I just thought it was way cooler #kind of lame going from surviving in the woods to living in society again

[sometranssoup]

read the boxcar kids,made a clubhouse in the woods to be his boxcar and played boxcar kids by himself all the time

#koth #king of the hill #dale gribble #boxcar kids #did anyone else play like peasant and orphan and shit as a kid #i was a fucked up kid

[stonedscully]

You know, I loved the original Boxcar Children book, where they're actually living in the boxcar and evading their unknowingly kind grandfather, but I always wished they would have kept the survivalist aspect of the books more instead of turning the kids into detectives. Like what if they started out the same, where they're going on a homeschool trip across the country, and they get lost in the desert, or in a plane crash, or running from the law? Way more interesting than a thinly veiled Hardy Boys knockoff imo

#childrens literature #boxcar children #the boxcar children #kids books #bookblr #idk ive always felt like it was a lost opportunity

[anonymousboxcar]

Sorry for having been radio silent for so long. I’ve been dealing with power outages, a busted furnace, and a lot of work. The end result was that I got very busy and a bit burned out.

I’m doing better now and things have gotten better on all those fronts. I don’t know if/when I’ll be posting fics or headcanons, but I hope to be more involved on here again!

#boxcar rambles #again my apologies for going quiet #the first power outage was because of bad weather and couldn’t be helped #the second one was caused by a neighbor and an electrical fire #which fried my furnace #and that’s why we don’t plant trees close to power lines kids! #(also the electricity company in my area — in their infinite wisdom — restrung the wire through the same tree) #(so if I suddenly go quiet again then you know why lol)

[aiiaiiiyo]

#“I lived next to the railroad as a kid and watched this man toss 450 pound ties up into boxcars all day.. every day. 4 men inside stacking” #joeylmao #oldschool

[monstercollection]

Let me tell you the story of a very dumb 90s kid (and the not-so-bright adult that kid grew into).

I, like a lot of 90s kids in US, read The Boxcar Children in 3rd grade. I got supper excited when I found out it was a series and probably spent more on them at Scholastic Book Fairs than my parents did on my braces.

But there was something that always confused me about the first book. In the original Boxcar Children book, the kids are given a ride by a couple who drive a horse and buggy. And there are frequent references to water fountains for horses and generally that horse-drawn transportation was a mainstay.

And then at the end of the book, the rich grandfather shows up and he’s driving a station wagon.

Now, you would think that even if 8-year-old me was confused about this, adult me would have assumed the book took place in a time where automobiles were only just coming into use. The couple at the beginning were poor bakers who had to use a cart and rich Mr. Alden could afford a fancy car.

And on a certain level, I understood that was probably the case.

But here’s the thing. The edition I grew up reading looked like this:

What about this entire cover even remotely says “this book is set in 1924”?

I’m furious. Because if someone had handed me an edition that looked like this:

Then obviously my 8-year-old brain (and subsequent adult thembo one) would know this book was set MORE THAN 70 YEARS PRIOR.

I do think they used some of the original illustrations on the inside. And maybe that should have provided context, but honestly I think it just made me more confused.

But also, they were still coming out with new Boxcar Children Mysteries and I was regularly blowing all my Scholastic Book Fair money on these:

Which again, all 90s looks for the kids on the covers and all illustrations on the inside were also super 90s.

I also think that something that contributed to my initial confusion was the fact that I didn’t think station wagons were that old.

I was picturing this:

Not this:

I do now know that most of those old kids mystery series were rebooted and rebranded every generation. Nancy Drew books even got regular rewrites to make her closer to whatever that decade would think a cool, stylish, liberated teenage girl look like. But when I was just a kid, I came up with my own explanation:

I decided they must be Amish. Think about it— we never knew what happened that drove the wedge between Old Mr. Alden and his son. What if the kids’ dad fell in love with an Amish girl, renounced his claim to the family fortune and ran away to marry her? Then they died and the children found the society too harsh and repressive and ran away to escape!

But also… I am more than a bit embarrassed because it took me 25 YEARS to wrap my head around something from a book they teach 3rd graders.

#the boxcar children #1990s #90s kid #I am an idiot actually #I thought they took place in the 1960s at the earliest #I mean look at Jessie’s jumpsuit!!!!

[saltlakehardcoreflyers]

#dag nasty #boxcar kids #speedway cafe #1980s #1988

[aquared]

a redraw of that one panel but with

#aquared homestuck au where the midnight crew are the kids and there are some other guys too i think #homestuck #should i tag problem sleuth because the original panel is from the extras #i won’t it doesn’t really matter #homestuck fankid #the midnight crew #spades slick #diamonds droog #clubs deuce #hearts boxcars #i have to slow down with these posts #blarrrrgh ! #this isnt the so called important thing i mentioned in the last post i just really wanted to finish this

[picturebookshelf]

The Boxcar Children: Bus Station Mystery

Story: Gertrude Chandler Warner -- Art: David Cunningham Original edition: 1974 -- This edition: 1991

#boxcar children #bus station mystery #chapter books #children's novels #children's books #kid books #kidlit #children's literature #enviromentalism #1990s #90s #1970s #70s

[elucubrare]

shocked that your addition to the "child soldiers in children's media" post didn't mention how Animorphs handled that. Applegate went fucking hard.

i was too much of a snob to read them as a child & it's too late now

it very much sounds like she did it well, tho, because i do feel like "participating in the world" does, alas, have to include being scarred by it sometimes.

#the only big series books i read were the boxcar children books #i fucking love a 'kids have to manage on their own' book

[tumblestones-archive]

hilbert grew up, as far as he remembers, in nimbasa city with his dad. the pokemon league was all well and good (and he’d hung around nimbasa gym occasionally to catch battles) what had truly caught and held his attention was the battle subway. the concept of it appealed to him more than traveling the region, being more comfortable in the city than he really was in the wilderness. as soon as he was able and had pokemon of his own, he started training hard to be able to be counted as one of the dedicated trainers of the subway.

he serves as an opponent to challengers on the single line, but prefers to be a stand by partner for trainers wanting to challenge the double train but don’t have a partner/that there’s no challenger partner available for.

#interaction | hilbert #about | hilbert #headcanon | hilbert #boxcar kid | hilbert