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The Railway Children

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Author(s):E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):Pamela Kay
Publisher(s): Philomel Books
Year Published: 1989
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - novel
Girls Growing Up
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 189
ISBN-10: 039921819X
ISBN-13: 9780399218194
OCLC: 21328781

Description

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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Other Editions

1905
(Macmillan & Co.)
1906
(Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.)
1957
(Ernest Benn Limited)
1994
(Henry Holt and Company)
1999
(The Folio Society)
2005
(Sea Star Books)

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