The Great Detective Race

Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for writing the original book of The Boxcar Children and for the next eighteen books in the series. Warner once said that she did much of her writing while convalescing from illnesses or accidents, and that she conceived the idea of The Boxcar Children while sick at home. Of this, she said, "I had to stay at home from school because of an attack of bronchitis. Having written a series of eight bo...

Robert Papp is an American illustrator, born and raised in Highland Park, New Jersey. He studied at the DuCret School of Art in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he trained under illustrator Peter Caras. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has illustrated book covers, magazine covers (including many issues of Cook's Illustrated), and national advertising campaigns for publishers in the United States and abroad, including Harlequin romance novel covers and children's books such as The...