The railway children - Rambling Readers

294 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1993 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:: 978-0-679-42534-2
OCLC Number:: 27431771

(3 reviews)

When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.

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taxonick reviewed The railway children by Edith Nesbit (Dover juvenile classics)

Review of 'The railway children' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Can't believe it's taken me until my 60s to read this. How beautifully written it is was a wonderful surprise, with such precise observation of the language and behaviour of children of different ages.

GrandmaY

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Dec. 26, 2016

Deebster

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March 5, 2020

Subjects

Family life -- Fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
Railroads -- Fiction
Country life -- England -- Fiction
England -- Fiction