These were my favorite when I was a kid. When my two daughters were about 5 & 8 (now 13 and 17) we read a few chapters of The Boxcar Children each evening. One day, I walked into the bathroom to find them and their two cousins sitting in the bathtub. When I asked them what they were doing, they looked at me like I was crazy. "We're the Boxcar Children". DUH!!