Life at 169: Miriam on The Box Car Children

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Miriam on The Box Car Children

We own five Box Car Children novels--including the first one. Miriam's read them all several times. She loves that series.

Tonight she was showing Timothy all the ones we have and discussing the merits of each. Tim asked her which one was her favorite.

She replied, "The first one. It's the one that makes me feel like I need to run away and live in a box car."

Interesting.

1 comment:

florascrap said...: Ha, so funny....I actually just dug my Boxcar Children books out of storage in order to introduce Gracie to them. :) I still need to e-mail you back, maybe this weekend...it has been a busy week!; February 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM

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