The Railway Children

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Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children (2010, The Floating Press)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

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Langue : English

Publié 11 novembre 2010 par The Floating Press.

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978-1-77541-755-2
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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, …