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How I would like to see The Railway Children end.
The author discusses a desire for the book to end with the father’s return, the family’s reunion, and Roberta uncovering her father’s location. They express hope for the Russian man’s reunion with his family and more action around the railway. The author also anticipates learning more about the characters, including secondary ones like the Doctor…
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Prologue of The Cave of Adventure
The fisherman was getting tired of watching for a gang of villains he didn’t believe were coming. Just as he was drifting off to sleep a noise woke him with a jump. It sounded like the sound of running feet and then someone dropping something. He looked around for the person or people that had…
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My Favourite Enid Blyton Quotes
“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.” ~ Enid Blyton “You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and…
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Pyramids in Egypt
When I first heard upper and lower Egypt, I thought upper meant north and lower meant south but that is not the case in Egypt. It is based around the Nile: lower is north because this is where the Nile goes out to the sea. Once they were actually different countries but then Pharaoh Menes…
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The Brick House Tour
From the outside you can see that the walls are made of brick and the roof has a scalloped shingled roof. When you enter through the front door you are in the hallway that has two doors. The door to the right leads to the living room with rectangle tiles, a soft rug, a stone…
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Holidays
A stormy night. The sea crashed against the rocks of the island and the birds hid from the fast and hard rain drops. We ran for all we were worth, the ground was muddy and sky was dark but on we went, ’til finally we reached home. We tumbled inside and I reached for the…
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The Ancient Greeks
The first European civilisations were in Greece, populated by seafarers migrating from Turkey. The Minoans and the Mycenaeans were developing at the same time as other early civilisations. The Minoan people were peaceful and they lived in Crete and some Islands near there, whereas the Mycenaeans were war-like and they lived on the Balkan Islands…
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The Railway Children Book Report
If you have read this book you will know that in the very first chapter their father is sent away for business and the children and their mother must leave the house that they live in and go to live in the country at a house called Three Chimneys. The house is near a railway…
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The babbling at the Tower of Babel
Prologue: I live during the time of the Tower of Babel, when God confused all of people by changing their languages. I have found a group of people that speak the same new language that you speak. Now my group and I are ready to move. As I fell to the ground, the bright light…