The Railway ChildrenEdith Nesbit's children's books came as a breath of fresh air compared to the stuffy and didactic preachy children's literature of her contemporaries, and seems surprisingly modern even to this day. She had great stories and her characters seemed like real flesh-and-blood children who one could identify with. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN is about a group of kids who have an interest in trains. Their father is falsely accused of a crime, and the train station porter is their only hope to get him freed, but will he succeed so that the family can be reuinted? This book was adapted for the stage many times and has even been adapted for the screen several times (1951, 1957, 1968, 1970, and 2000), of which the 1970 film version is the best known and loved. Along with other British classics like The Wind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland, this story remains an immortal children's classic not to be missed. |
