Railway Children

Description: Gorgeous collectable edition of E. Nesbit's brilliant children's adventure story.

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

A gorgeous new edition. Following the iconic railway children, Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter arrive in the countryside with their mother after moving from the city of London, where life is very different. They adjust to their new life and soon become fascinated with the local railway and this is the beginning of their adventures. As the children learn about the trains, they soon discover that the answers to their father's sudden disappearance are maybe closer than they thought.

Brief description: E. Nesbit was an English writer, poet and activist. The author of sixty books, she is known primarily for her children's stories, including The Railway Children, Five Children and It and the Bastable series, as well as her short stories. She has been called the creator of contemporary children's fantasy and influenced many later writers.