The railway children

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Edith Nesbit: The railway children (1992)

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.

211 pages

Langue : English

Publié 11 novembre 1992

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ISBN :
978-0-440-40602-0
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Numéro OCLC :
25828660

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Sujets
  • Family -- Juvenile fiction
  • Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
  • Railroads -- Juvenile fiction
  • Country life -- Juvenile fiction
  • England -- Juvenile fiction

Critiques

a publié une critique de The Railway Children par Edith Nesbit

My wife kept making fun of me that I was listening to the boxcar children. Other than a similar name and written in the earlier 1900s they have nothing in common. A nice family from London is changed overnight when the police take dad to jail. Since they are a nice English family, they keep the reason for dad's disappearance a secret even from their own kids. They move to the country, and the kids befriend the adults in town because now they are too poor to go to school. The kids have various adventures and there is a happy ending. What more can you want?

I cannot recommend the particular Tantor Unabridged Classics edition I listened too. It was like CD on demand rather than a properly manufactured disc and my CD player got all screwy not knowing what track it was on etc. I addition the narrator, …