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Save the railway banks that inspired Edith Nesbits Railway Children, campaigners say 27 January 2021 • 12:01am The cutting is thought to be one of the inspirations for Edith Nesbits The Railway Children Credit: Baring Trust The railway banks that inspired The Railway Children must be saved from developers and turned into a park to protect wildlife, campaigners say. Locals in Lewishams Grove Park area of south east London want to preserve the section of railway that Edith Nesbits home overloo...

The last time I read The Magician’s Nephew was thirty years ago. Before I sat down to read, I tried to bring to mind all the things I could remember, and I was surprised by how many there were: Aslan singing, the Wood Between Worlds, the witch grabbing Polly’s hair (yes, okay, that one is on the cover of my edition). I had a vague memory of the rings, and of Strawberry coming into Narnia, as well as the illness of Digory’s mother and the adventure to get the apples. When I finally starte...

Young Toseland Oldknow—Tolly, please, if you must give him a nickname, not Towser, or worse, Toto (I am trying to look past the implied insult to Oz here, everyone)—is off to live with his great-grandmother in a very old house that to him feels very far away. He is both scared and slightly hopeful: since the death of his mother, his only real family is a distant father and a well meaning but generally clueless stepmother, so a great-grandmother feels like something. She might even be real...

“The Railway Children,” featuring Izaak Cainer, Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey and Beth Lilly, on The Shows Must Go On and BroadwayHD online. Evoking the bygone era of British high society and the heyday of travel by steam train, “The Railway Children,” is a family-friendly event with a decidedly English flair and a truly unique staging that should satisfy audiences of all ages. As an American, I had to do a little digging about  The Railway Children, a beloved children’s book in Great Brita...