The Railway Children (Evergreen Classics)

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Genre: Classic fiction; Fiction; Classics; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 2-3; Juvenile Fiction / General; Brothers and sisters; Country life; Family life; Railroads;

Average Review: 4.5 stars

Review: Lovely Edwardian Charmer : Utterly delightful. Loved it, ate it up. Need more Nesbit, soon as poss. Three kids are taken to live in the English countryside when their father, well, disappears. While their mother suffers silently, and sells short fiction to help pay the bills (those were the days!), the children make a fantasy land out of their little village, especially the local railroad depot with all its fascinations. Imagine being fascinated with the steam train when it was cutting edge technology, not nostalgia! Communicating with the passengers via signs, befriending engineers, porters and station masters, even preventing a nasty rail accident, the kids end up both having fun and relieving the hardships of poor, careworn mother. Beautiful book both remembers what its like to be a child and peeks into a childhood none of us ever knew. If you love the world of late Victorian/Edwardian Britain, read it. If you love the early parts of the Narnia books, before the kids enter the wardrobe, read it. It's precious.