The railway children

Summarize the story railway children

Now nearly 100 years old, this story centres on the lives of

three children whose comfortable, middle-class existence ends when their father has to go away unexpectedly. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis leave their London home and move with their mother to a small cottage in the country where life is very different.

The main characters

roberta and peter and phyllis

The minor characters

mother and the dad

The place :london

The time in1954

The main idea:

One theme present in The Railway Children is the pain the family feels in their father’s absence. This reflects Nesbit’s own experience: Her father died when she was four. In many of Nesbit’s stories, the children’s characters can be found on a quest for missing parents.

events that i like the most :

1)When they rescued the boy from the train

2)when they travel to another country