The Railway Children - Brossura

Puffin Classics

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141321601 ISBN 13: 9780141321608

Casa editrice: Puffin Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Uno dei classici più popolari di tutti i tempi, con una meravigliosa introduzione dell'autrice di bestseller multimilionari Jacqueline Wilson. Quando il padre viene portato via inaspettatamente, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis e la madre devono lasciare la loro comoda vita a Londra per andare a vivere in un piccolo cottage in campagna. I bambini cercano conforto nella vicina stazione ferroviaria e fanno amicizia con Perks il facchino e il capostazione in persona. Ogni giorno, Roberta, Peter e Phyllis corrono lungo il campo fino ai binari della ferrovia e salutano il treno di Londra in transito, inviando il loro amore al padre. Non sanno che il gentile vecchio gentiluomo passeggero che risponde al saluto ha la chiave della scomparsa del padre. Sempre di E. Nesbit, disponibile in Puffin Books The Phoenix and the Carpet Five Children and It

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E Nesbit (Author)
Edith Nesbit was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. 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. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including Five Children and It also became very popular. 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.

Jacqueline Wilson (Introducer)
Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.

Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

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They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bathroom with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well.Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull calls to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay calls to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays  and for other great occasions, such as the christening of new kittens, or the furnishing of the dolls house, or the time when they were getting over the mumps.These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely nursery with heaps of toys, and a Mother Goose wallpaper. They had a kind and merry nursemaid, and a dog who was called James and who was their very own. They also had a Father who was just perfect - never cross, never unjust, and always ready for a game - at least, if at any time he was not ready, he always had an excellent reason for it, and explained the reason to the children so interestingly and funnily that they felt sure he couldn't help himself.You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know how happy till the pretty life in Edgecombe Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed...  

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Puffin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0141321601
• ISBN 13: 9780141321608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile