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The Railway Children

Adapted from The Railway Children (1906) by E. Nesbit
public domain; Project Gutenberg #1874 View source text ↗
Status
Complete
Length
18 chapters · 9 scenesAbout 1 hr 15 min total
Rating
TeenNo explicit content

Three children are moved out of a comfortable London villa into a cold house beside a railway line, and nobody explains why Father did not come with them.

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About this story

You play Bobbie, the eldest, who works it out first and keeps it from the others. Eighteen chapters of waving at the 9.15, a landslip flagged down with red flannel petticoats, a birthday assembled for a porter, and a newspaper report cut out with Mother's scissors.

Who you’ll meet

Mother, Peter and Phyllis — the reader is Bobbie.

How it opens

Evening gathered around the red-brick villa while the nursery table waited for Peter, Phyllis, and you.

I have finished tomorrow's story; shall I read it now?

Peter abandoned a half-built fort, and Phyllis carried the cushions nearer the fire.

Begin before Peter invents another battle.

That is sound advice.

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Did you put us into this story?

May we choose the ending tonight?

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