Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Gertrude Chandler Warner became a teacher because she was called to service during World War I. (Source)
Fiction wasn't the only means Warner used to teach children good habits—she also used a good-hygiene puppet. (Source)
Warner was a high-school dropout. (She wasn't a punk; it was a health thing.) Later in life, though, she attended Yale. (Source)
Did you know that many people have actually lived in boxcars? One of them was country-music singer Merle Haggard. How do you think his stacked up next to the one the Alden kids lived in? (Source)
Decades after the author's death, the publisher still receives fan mail for Gertrude Chandler Warner. (Source)