The Railway Children

by Edith Nesbit

Overview

A young family must leave their comfortable London life for a house in the country when their father is taken away unexpectedly. Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis spend their days at the nearby train station, befriending the station master and porter and many of the passengers. Waving goodbye to the departing London train each day and sending their love to their father who is detained there, they strike up a friendship with a kindly old man who may be able to help them get their father back.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974994014
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	07/24/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	65
File size:	487 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who wrote or collaborated on more than sixty books of children's literature. Called the first modern writer for children, she wrote in a style that combined realistic contemporary children in real-world settings with magical objects and included adventures and sometimes travel to imaginary worlds. In so doing, she influenced many subsequent writers, including P. L. Travers, C. S. Lewis, and J. K. Rowling.

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"Her child characters were remarkable in her day because they are so entirely human. They are intelligent, vain, aggressive, humorous, witty, cruel, compassionate. . . in fact, they are like adults."  —Gore Vidal

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"No childhood is complete without this novel." - The Telegraph

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