Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish thisbeautiful
edition of the classic tale, The Railway Children.
When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis's father is imprisoned after being
falsely accused of spying, they and their mother have to leave
their comfortable London home to go and live in a small house
in the country.
However, the children soon come to love the railway that runs
near their cottage, and have many adventures - stopping a train from
disaster, saving an infant and dog from a barge canal on fire,
and getting help when they find an injured boy in the trail tunnel.
When they befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15
train near their home, he helps them to prove their father's innocence,
and the family is reunited at last.
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E. Nesbit 1858-1924, was an English author and poet, who wrote or collaborated on more than 60 works of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television and are still popular today, such as The Treasure Seekers and Five Children and It.
English author Edith Nesbit's impressive body of work includes poems, plays,
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