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The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

Start date: July 1, 2018

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Jul 01, 2024 Cleo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: children-literature, classics, english-literature, childrens-books

"They were not railway children to begin with."

And they weren't. To begin with, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lived with their parents in London in a nice house with servants and virtually anything they desired. But one day there is a knock on the door and the whole family's life is turned upside down.

Father disappears and Mother is left to work hard at her writing of stories to sell. They immediately leave for the country and end up lodging in a house called The Three Chimneys, located close to ...more

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May 14, 2023 Carolin rated it did not like it

Shelves: read-in-2023

This book almost killed me. I am sure it’s sweet and cute and a classic. But I read it with my 8 year old, or better he read it to me and it almost made me quit reading with him. Every second line he asked me what a word means which most of the time I couldn’t answer and even a Google search wasn’t much of a help. After a while I figured to tell him that the book is more than a 100 years old and these people come from Yorkshire so use funny words (sorry Yorkshire people). Which helped but only s ...more

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Aug 21, 2013 ULa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: edith-nesbit, afternoon-coffee

masa kanak - kanak memang menyenangkan, walaupun ada masalah kita harus tetap menikmati hidup dan terus maju. Itulah yang paling terasa setelah membaca novel ini.

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