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The Railway Children

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Author(s):E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):Lynton Lamb
Publisher(s): Ernest Benn Limited
Coward-McCann, Inc.
Year Published: 1957
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Trains
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 223
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0510160514
ISBN-13: 9780510160517
OCLC: 7038726

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 (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 (1999)

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: The Folio Society
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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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