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The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island #Giveaway

May 2, 2018 by dadofdivas 5 Comments

The beloved Boxcar Children are headed to the silver screen! The new animated feature film The Boxcar Children - Surprise Island hits theaters nationwide for a special one-day event on May 8.

The beloved Boxcar Children are headed to the silver screen! The new animated feature film The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island hits theaters nationwide for a special one-day event on May 8.

 

This exciting after-school event is a partnership between Fathom Events, Shout! Kids, and Legacy Classics, and it will also offer moviegoers an exclusive introduction with actor Griffin Gluck and Director Dan Chuba explaining the process of adapting the book to film, and the process of animating. Moviegoers will be able to enjoy the film in approximately 700 select U.S. movie theaters. A complete list of theater locations will be available at Fathomevents.com. Tickets for The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island will go on sale Friday, April 6, and can be purchased online or at participating theater box offices.

 

The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island, the highly-anticipated movie adaption of the popular children’s book of the same name, stars Golden Globe®-winning actor Martin Sheen (The West Wing) as James Alden, Oscar®-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Dr. Moore, Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) as the mysterious Joe, Joey King (Independence Day: Resurgence) as Jesse Alden, Carter Sand (Frozen) as Benny Alden, Gil Birmingham (Twilight) as Lonan Browning, Griffin Gluck (Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life) as Henry Alden, Stephen Stanton (Star Wars Rebels) as Capt. Daniel and Talitha Bateman (Love, Simon) as Violet.

The beloved Boxcar Children are headed to the silver screen! The new animated feature film The Boxcar Children - Surprise Island hits theaters nationwide for a special one-day event on May 8.

The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island follows the adventures of the orphaned Boxcar Children as they spend an entire summer living on their Grandfather’s small, nearly uninhabited island. There they meet Joe, who is friendly and helpful, and inexplicably living on their island. Does their new friend have a secret?

 

The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island is fun for the whole family, and is Dove approved for all ages. It is directed by Dan Chuba and Mark Dippé, and is produced by Legacy Classics and co-produced by Shout! Factory, Albert Whitman & Company and Blueberry Pictures. The Boxcar Children – Surprise Island is the first of three new animated features to be adapted from the “The Boxcar Children” book series, as part of a partnership between Shout! Kids and Legacy Classics.

 

“The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler Warner is one of the best-selling children’s book series of all time. Having just marked its 75th anniversary, over 70 million books have sold world-wide.  There are 150 books in the series, and over 1 million kids read the books in schools across North America every year.

The beloved Boxcar Children are headed to the silver screen! The new animated feature film The Boxcar Children - Surprise Island hits theaters nationwide for a special one-day event on May 8.

Giveaway

How would you like to win a few Boxcar Children books including: Guide to Adventure, Gertrude Chandler Warner and The Boxcar Children and the novel Surprise Island  for yourself or for your family? All you need to enter is the following:

 

  1. Share a comment about your favorite book as a child
  2. Share this giveaway socially and leave a comment on where you shared it
  3. ENTER THE GIVEAWAY –

 

Winner must be a resident of the U.S.

Winners are chosen at random, if you want all your chances counted, make sure you leave individual comments, not all of them in one!

Winner has 48 hours to contact me or another name will be chosen.

 

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Comments

  1. heather says

    May 2, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    My favorite book as a child was The Cat in the Hat and I still have the book. I subscribe to you on youtube as sissybella07@gmail.com. I so enjoyed watching the video of you on the Roseanne set that was amazing. I also love that they have a picture of Glenn Quinn on set I sure miss him. Thank you for sharing the video.

    Reply
  2. VICKIE L COUTURIER says

    May 3, 2018 at 11:48 am

    my favorite books growing up was the Hardy boys mysteries

    Reply
  3. olga says

    May 5, 2018 at 9:43 am

    My favorite book as a kid was Sherlock Holmes

    Reply
  4. Olga says

    May 5, 2018 at 9:49 am

    Shared the contest on Twitter

    Reply
  5. vickie couturier says

    May 7, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    https://www.facebook.com/vickie.couturier/posts/10155333786407050

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