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The Railway Children

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Author(s):E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):Inga Moore
Publisher(s): The Folio Society
Year Published: 1999
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 188
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 44503022

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

The Railway Children (1905)

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. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
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The Railway Children (1906)

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. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.
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The Railway Children (1957)

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.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Railway Children (1989)

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.

Publisher: Philomel Books
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The Railway Children (1994)

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.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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The Railway Children (2005)

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.

Publisher: Sea Star Books
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Recommended Books

Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)

It’s midsummer eve and Mary Poppins takes her charges to the park.

Read online at archive.org. 

Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Sense and Sensibility (1811)

When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in relative poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who offers them a suitable residence at a small rent. The elder Miss Dashwood is already in love and her younger sister soon contrives to fall in love as well.

Read the entire work online at Internet Archive. Or read individual volumes at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.

Publisher: T. Egerton
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