Ep 494 - The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It's time to solve the mystery of the Boxcar Children! (Or is it The Box-Car Children?) Warner's novel about a quartet of self-sufficient kiddos underwent a major revision 20 years after its debut AND it spawned dozens of mystery-focused sequels despite there not really being a mystery in the original. Tune in to hear about our own secret hideouts and to learn about Andrew's favorite new website for author research.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:43.3 | Hey everybody welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:47.5 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:48.5 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:50.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to the show everybody. |
| 0:53.4 | Hey Craig, I have news for you we're orphans. |
| 0:58.3 | We just became orphans. |
| 0:59.7 | Oh no. |
| 1:00.7 | Some undisclosed tragedy and now we must go to the woods and live in a box car that I found. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay now. |
| 1:08.3 | And solve mysteries. |
| 1:09.3 | Okay, are there any texts that we can use to like model our life on? |
| 1:16.6 | Do you think? |
| 1:17.6 | Well, I was a goose bumps guy so I never read them but I'm given to understand that |
| 1:25.7 | there are books about children who live in a box car that we might be able to use for |
| 1:31.1 | just exactly this purpose. |
| 1:32.7 | The train yard gang. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah. |
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