THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

After their father is
mysteriously abducted by strangers, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move with their
mother from their comfortable city home to ‘Three Chimneys’, a tiny cottage
in the countryside, next to a railway station. Soon the children find enough
to amuse themselves with at the station, befriending everybody from the
porter and the stationmaster to an old gentleman who waves at them from the
9.15 each day. But the mystery of their father’s disappearance looms large
over them. Where is Father? And ho9w does the old gentleman hold the key to
the mystery? Told n simple, lucid prose, Nesbit’s classic is one of the most
endearing coming-of-age stories ever written.