NMLP P-044336 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner (illus. Dorothy Lake Gregory) · Rand McNally & Company (Chicago and New York) · 1924

The true first is titled "The Box-Car Children" — hyphenated — with the imprint "Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1924"; the modern one-word "Boxcar" title belongs to the rewritten text and is itself a precedence tell

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044336 for "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner (illus. Dorothy Lake Gregory) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044336, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).