LITERATURE COMPONENT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN ,Edith Nesbit (FROM THREE)
Retold by: John Escott
Illustrated by: Rachel Birkett
SYNOPSIS
Story of three children who must live in reduced
circumstances when their father, a government official, is arrested on a false
charge of treason. The kids adapt rather well to their new environment, a
community located on the edges of a railway. They be friend a kindly porter and
a wealthy gent, both of whom strive to prove their father's innocence. Though
the plot of The Railway Children threatens to become excessively melodramatic
at every turn, the film's charm is sustained by telling the tale strictly from
the children's point of view.
