Edith Nesbit

Los seis hermanos Bastable, huérfanos de madre desde varios años atrás, perciben que algo ha ocurrido con los negocios de su padre. Toda una serie de detalles parecen indicar que la posición económica de la familia se encuentra en franco declive y con escasas posibilidades de recuperación. Los tres...

'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...

When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and...