E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It is a fun, fanciful story with an underlying message to “be careful what you wish for.”
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Funny Misunderstandings of Grown-Up Speak in The Railway Children
This is my last post about the Railway Children, I promise. One element that I loved in this book, other than the playfulness of the parents, is the misunderstandings of grown-up actions and phrases by the children. Imitating Things Grown Ups Say After the children’s father is arrested, the children try not to fight, forContinue reading “Funny Misunderstandings of Grown-Up Speak in The Railway Children”
The Political Commentary in The Railway Children
In E.Nesbit’s captivating children’s story, The Railway Children, she provides political commentary that her readers at the time would have understood. In fact, the main mystery in the novel, of what happened to the children’s father, raises critical questions about the French government.
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