Boxcar children in paradise?
6 May 2023 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneDoes anyone else remember the book where the boxcar children are... shipwrecked? On a tropical island?
Even though so the books in that series are so formulaic that I couldn't read more than four or five of them, I used to go back and reread that one. They're all mostly concerned with the children planning and executing themselves more or less improbable nesting and building projects using bits of nature, like when they build a dam (hence a swimming pool) and a fireplace in the first one, but this tropical one combined tropical escapism with the usual in a fun way.
It's probably not as fun as I remember it, like Nancy Drew books weren't, when I tried to pick one up as an adult. And given that there's a tropical setting, it's probably racist somehow too, though I can't remember any outside characters...
This fondness probably lines up with my liking for This Old House.
Even though so the books in that series are so formulaic that I couldn't read more than four or five of them, I used to go back and reread that one. They're all mostly concerned with the children planning and executing themselves more or less improbable nesting and building projects using bits of nature, like when they build a dam (hence a swimming pool) and a fireplace in the first one, but this tropical one combined tropical escapism with the usual in a fun way.
It's probably not as fun as I remember it, like Nancy Drew books weren't, when I tried to pick one up as an adult. And given that there's a tropical setting, it's probably racist somehow too, though I can't remember any outside characters...
This fondness probably lines up with my liking for This Old House.
