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PUTNAM --- Albert Whitman & Company recently announced that Newberry-winning author Patricia MacLachlan will write the prequel to The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. It will be published in September 2012. The announcement was made at the Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum in Putnam, Connecticut.
Excited to be writing the prequel to The Boxcar Children, MacLachlan is particularly interested in the children themselves. “Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are kind to one another and embody the true sense of family. They are resourceful and positive. I find them both true children and true heroes at the same time. It occurs to me that perhaps their parents were the same. I’m looking forward to exploring that idea and more.”
The Boxcar Children, an award-winning series with over 150 titles and more than 50 million copies in print, has been continuously in print since the publication of the first book in 1942. Albert Whitman will celebrate the 70th anniversary of this beloved series in 2012.
Albert Whitman & Company President John Quattrocchi said, “Young readers have long wondered how the Boxcar Children came to be orphans. We are pleased and honored that an author of Patricia MacLachlan’s talent and understanding of children will reveal the answer to the world.”