When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. Each day Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to father. Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father's disappearance.
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'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?
El dragón del mar de caramelo: la ofrenda de un rey al dragón hace que en Plurimiregia esté vacante siempre este puesto hasta que Billy acepta el trabajo. El dragón y la mantícora: aunque es rey, a Leonardo la lectura de un libro prohibido le traera mas de un susto. El dragon domesticado: domesticar un dragon no es suficiente, hay que ser astuto con un alcalde avaricioso. El dragon de fuego: si hay un dragon de por medio, hasta un porquero puede casarse con una princesa. El dragon morado: que en Rotundia las cosas sean al reves se debe a un giro de rotacion invertido; solo la hazaña para rescatar a la princesa del dragon trastoco el orden anterior. El dragon de hielo: no le conviene a un dragon del Polo Norte acercarse a una hoguera. La isla de los nueve remolinos: la astucia y el calculo pueden romper un encantamiento. Edmundo y el basilisco: no hay manera de que los mayores crean a los pequeños, aunque estos hayan salvado a toda una ciudad de un dragon. La invasion de dragones: solo con el cambio climatologico se puede acabar con una plaga de dragones. El ultimo dragon: nos hemos empeñado en que los dragones son terribles, cuando en realidad lo unico que necesitan es un poco de cariño.
Five Children and It is a childrens novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was first published as a book in 1902, having been expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet. The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line. Exciting things happen, and they make new friends. But where is their father? When is he coming home?
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