

S'està carregant… The Railway Children (1905)de E. Nesbit
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Favorite Childhood Books (111) » 32 més Comfort Reads (30) Childhood Favorites (21) Books Read in 2020 (377) Ambleside Books (80) A Novel Cure (170) Folio Society (360) Books Read in 2014 (1,177) Books Read in 2013 (1,062) CCE 1000 Good Books List (344) Books Read in 2012 (191) 4th Grade Books (189) Out of Copyright (140) Best Family Stories (100) Thoughtful It's hard for me to dislike a Nesbit book(I think Water Magic is the only one I never finished) , so this one was average. Though the kids are fun, the stories are dated. Oddly enough, it could probably have fit into any time between 1840-1960 but, now, you would spend too much time explaining details to make it much fun. Though, I'm highly jealous, as always, of the seemingly limitless amount of unstructured time. Memorable. This is a classic children's novel written at the turn of the twentieth century. The story involves a family in which the father was mysteriously taken away leaving the mother and three children to downsize and live a life of more moderate means in a rural area. Near the home is a train track and train station and the kids have several exciting adventures connected in part to that fact, I can see why the novel is loved and believe that even children today would enjoy the book. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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It was not this one, which had no statues, hollow, elephant or otherwise, and was a fantasy only to the extent that these children save a frankly incredible number of lives while also remaining persistently oblivious to the social norms they keep crashing through in asking people for help with, variously, the inconveniences of their sudden poverty due to the mysterious disappearance of their father(*), birthday presents for their friend, solving another friend's problems, finding their father, etc.
I do love the turn of phrase "repeating and repeating like a tune that you don't know the stopping part of" which is a neat way of describing an earworm before the term "earworm" was invented.
(*) He was falsely imprisoned. Again fantastically he is vindicated and reunited with his children in the final scene of the book, during which coincidentally my eyes were cruelly assaulted by the fumes of the onion that was sitting in the other room. (