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The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher [ 1 ] Gertrude Chandler Warner and currently published by Penguin Random House. It was previously published through Albert, Whitman and Company until 2023. Today, the series includes more than 160 titles, with more being ...
Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography.
This original version of The Boxcar Children was published by Rand McNally and Company in 1924. [4] It included 4 color illustrations by Dorothy Lake Gregory . In 1942, Warner rewrote the book with a prescribed vocabulary of six hundred words and a text of about 15,000 words, so that it could be used as a children's school reader. [ 3 ]
Helen Wilkie Wing (February 7, 1892 – December 19, 1981) was an American author, composer, [1] and pianist [2] who was born in Polk, North Carolina. [3] She lived in Chicago, Illinois, for much of her life but also gave recitals in Michigan [4] and Wisconsin. [5]
Died. October 4, 1975. (1975-10-04) (aged 82) Provincetown, Massachusetts, US. Known for. Painter, printmaker, illustrator. Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893–1975) was an American artist best known for her work as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books. She took art classes in public school and at the age of fourteen began making drawings ...
William H. Rand. William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush.
Racey Helps. Angus Clifford Racey Helps (1913–1970) was an English children's author and illustrator. His books were written in a simple style and feature woodland creatures and birds, with illustrations by the author. He is known also for illustrating postcards, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, playing cards and wrapping paper.
On several occasions he had two or three novels published in the same year – and even four in 1910. His first success came in 1897, when he entered a $30,000 competition for new authors sponsored by the Chicago Record. He was awarded second prize for The Mill of Silence, published by Rand, McNally that year.