When their father is sent away to prison, three London Children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
Other children\'s books by E Nesbit: The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Wouldbegoods
The New Treasure Seekers
Complete History of the Bastable Family
Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Story of the Amulet
The House of Arden
Harding\'s Luck
The Railway Children
The Enchanted Castle
The Magic City
The Wonderful Garden
Wet Magic
Five of Us and Madeline.
The Railway Children was first published monthly in the London Magazine in 1905, and published as a book in 1906, which has been in print ever since.
Other books featuring the Bastable Children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including Five Children and It also became very popular.
Her first children\'s book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899 to great acclaim.
Nesbit turned late to children\'s writing.
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With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times.
Edith Nesbit was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult.
One of the best-loved classics of all time, with a wonderful introduction by Jacqueline Wilson.
Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father\'s disappearance.
Each day, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the Railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to Father.
The Children seek solace in the nearby Railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself.
When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country.
Nesbit.
The Railway Children is the classic children\'s story by E.
When their father is sent away to prison, three London Children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves
