Author: Wendy Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916481732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Railway Carriage Child is the autobiography of a child raised in a pair of Great Eastern Railway carriages, built in 1887, converted to living accommodation in the 1920s and home to Wendy's family to the present day. Set in the Cambridgeshire fens, this story not only gives a personal account of an unusual childhood but chronicles the social history of this ever changing part of England. With a strong topographical background, it introduces some colourful characters and takes us back to the quieter times of the early and mid 20th century.
The Railway Carriage Child
Author: Wendy Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916481732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Railway Carriage Child is the autobiography of a child raised in a pair of Great Eastern Railway carriages, built in 1887, converted to living accommodation in the 1920s and home to Wendy's family to the present day. Set in the Cambridgeshire fens, this story not only gives a personal account of an unusual childhood but chronicles the social history of this ever changing part of England. With a strong topographical background, it introduces some colourful characters and takes us back to the quieter times of the early and mid 20th century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916481732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Railway Carriage Child is the autobiography of a child raised in a pair of Great Eastern Railway carriages, built in 1887, converted to living accommodation in the 1920s and home to Wendy's family to the present day. Set in the Cambridgeshire fens, this story not only gives a personal account of an unusual childhood but chronicles the social history of this ever changing part of England. With a strong topographical background, it introduces some colourful characters and takes us back to the quieter times of the early and mid 20th century.
From a Railway Carriage
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781858810003
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Stevenson's poem communicates a child's excitement at travelling by train and takes us on an unforgettable picture-book journey. 5-8 yrs.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781858810003
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Stevenson's poem communicates a child's excitement at travelling by train and takes us on an unforgettable picture-book journey. 5-8 yrs.
A Child's Garden of Verse
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," and "Foreign Land."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," and "Foreign Land."
The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Children's Book of Verse
Author:
Publisher: Brimax Books
ISBN: 9781858545387
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Publisher: Brimax Books
ISBN: 9781858545387
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
Tea and Sugar Christmas
Author: Jane Jolly
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278636
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without sugar. Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please don’t be late. Join Kathleen in the outback as she eagerly awaits the Christmas Tea and Sugar train. Will she meet Father Christmas? Will she receive a Christmas gift from him? A delightful, heart-warming story from the National Library of Australia that will intrigue, captivate and introduce readers to a slice of the past. Wonderful sensitive illustrations, including a beautiful double fold-out image showing the shops inside all the carriages.
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278636
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without sugar. Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please don’t be late. Join Kathleen in the outback as she eagerly awaits the Christmas Tea and Sugar train. Will she meet Father Christmas? Will she receive a Christmas gift from him? A delightful, heart-warming story from the National Library of Australia that will intrigue, captivate and introduce readers to a slice of the past. Wonderful sensitive illustrations, including a beautiful double fold-out image showing the shops inside all the carriages.
The Children's War
Author: Monique Charlesworth
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307428249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Morocco to Paris, a city made hectic at the threat of Nazi invasion. At the same time in Germany, Nicolai, a boy miserably destined for the Nazi Youth movement, finds comfort in the friendship of Ilse’s mother, the nursemaid hired to take care of his young sister. Gripping and poignant, The Children’s War is a stunning novel of wartime lives, of parents and children, of adventure and self-discovery.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307428249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Morocco to Paris, a city made hectic at the threat of Nazi invasion. At the same time in Germany, Nicolai, a boy miserably destined for the Nazi Youth movement, finds comfort in the friendship of Ilse’s mother, the nursemaid hired to take care of his young sister. Gripping and poignant, The Children’s War is a stunning novel of wartime lives, of parents and children, of adventure and self-discovery.
Murder on the Safari Star: Adventures on Trains #3
Author: M. G. Leonard
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 125022294X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this third book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to South Africa with his uncle to a ride a famous train...and stumbles onto a murder mystery! Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle—this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board! Accident . . . or murder? With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure out if a murder has really taken place and, if so, who among a long list of suspects is the killer—all before the Safari Star arrives at its final destination.
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 125022294X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this third book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to South Africa with his uncle to a ride a famous train...and stumbles onto a murder mystery! Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle—this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board! Accident . . . or murder? With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure out if a murder has really taken place and, if so, who among a long list of suspects is the killer—all before the Safari Star arrives at its final destination.
The Lion and Albert
Author: Marriott Edgar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416584509
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thora Hird, Roy Hudd and others read seventeen of Marriott Edgar's memorable monologues.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416584509
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thora Hird, Roy Hudd and others read seventeen of Marriott Edgar's memorable monologues.