Bunnicula vs The Boxcar Children: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Mystery and Suspense, Juvenile audience, Mystery, Fiction
Bunnicula
“I SHALL never forget the first time I laid these now tired old eyes on our visitor.”
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery is a children's novel written by Deborah Howe and James Howe, illustrated by Alan Daniel, and published by Atheneum Books in 1979. It inaugurated the Bunnicula series and Bunnicula…
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The Boxcar Children
“ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery.”
Orphaned siblings Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet are determined not to be separated after the deaths of their parents. Fearing being sent away to live with their cruel, frightening grandfather, they run away and…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Bunnicula has the widest readership — 72145 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Bunnicula | The Boxcar Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (72145) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (112) | 3.8 (145) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (6) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (408) | 4.5 (35) |
Reception
| Bunnicula | The Boxcar Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 72145 | 145 |
| Editions | 46 | 87 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 18637 | — |
| Reading it now | 881 | — |
| Written reviews | 3703 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4952 | 12692 |
| Pages | 98 | 173 |