Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Poison Frog Mystery Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: The Aldens investigate when exotic and endangered animals begin to disappear from the zoo where their new friend Lindsey works. Jacket Description/Flap: When someone steals animals from the zoo, the children set a trap using a beautiful but dangerous poison-arrow frog.

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden Children.