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    The Railway Children

    By E. Nesbit

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    When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis are shattered. They and Mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet.

    However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving every day to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriends the porter, Perks, and through him learn railway lore and much else. They have many adventures, and when they save a train from disaster, they are helped by the Old Gentleman to solve the mystery of Father's disappearance, and the family is happily reunited.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9781466884755
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    E. Nesbit

    Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 and, like her fictional characters in The Railway Children, her middle-class family was one whose fortunes declined. After surviving a tough and nomadic childhood she met and married her husband, Hubert Bland, in 1880 whilst pregnant with the couple's first child. Financial hardship was to dog Nesbit again when Bland's business failed, forcing her to write to support their burgeoning family. She only later in life focused on writing the children's stories for which she became so well known, including The Story of The Treasure Seekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901), Five Children and It (1902) and The Railway Children (1906). She died in 1924.

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      My favorites are the Five Children and It, The Amulet, and the Phoenix and the Carpet. They all center around four children, two girls, two boys, and the baby brother. The children meet the magical creature, the psammead, and are granted wishes which turn out unexpectedly. There is a lot of social commentary mixed in as she describes some of the poorer neighborhoods in England. Edith Nesbit, was born mid nineteenth century and died in 1924. The books really do include all four children. They aren't slanted towards the boys.