The Mystery of the Hot Air Balloon

Charles Tang is an illustrator of children's fiction, best known for illustrating more than thirty entries in Gertrude Chandler Warner's Boxcar Children mystery series for Albert Whitman & Company through the 1990s and early 2000s, including The Mystery at the Dog Show and The Guide Dog Mystery.

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...