鐵路邊的孩子們：THE RAILWAY CHILDREN（英文朗讀版）

　　《鐵路邊的孩子們》講述的是一家人在困境中的生活故事，爸爸因被人陷害而被關進了監(jiān)獄，媽媽獨立支撐起整個家庭。但是整個故事讓我們感受到的不是艱難困苦，而是媽媽努力維護的溫馨生活，還有孩子們健康快樂的成長。就在這個鐵路邊，孩子們機智地避免了一場可怕的鐵路災難，救助了另一位在隧道中摔傷的少年，還撲滅了運河輪船上的火情，和媽媽一起收留了一位流亡的俄羅斯作家。他們高尚的行為贏得了所有人的尊重，最后又在好心人的幫助下為爸爸洗清了冤屈。The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit first published in 1906. In this much-loved children's classic， the comfortable lives of a family with three children-Roberta， Peter and Phyllis-are greatly altered， when one evening two men arrive at the house and take their father away…　They had to leave their London home and move to the countryside and settle in a much smaller house which was quite messy. Their mother made a living by writing stories， articles， poems， etc. One day in search of a garden they land up behind their house only to find a railway track where they meet Perks， the porter. Every day they wave at the 9.15 train， since that train goes to London and， assuming their father was in London， they want to convey their good wishes.　They also befriend the station master and learn about engines. One day they notice that stones have fallen on to the railway line， so they wave a red flannel petticoat like a flag to stop the train， and thus avert the accident. They also prevent a house from catching fire and rescue a young boy who they find lying unconscious in the tunnel with a fractured leg. Once they saw three people coming out of the 11.54 train. Roberta quickly realises that the third man is their father， and the family is happily reunited

　　伊迪斯·內斯比特（Edith Nesbit），英國著名作家。伊迪斯是一位多產的作家，一生出版過各種文體作品的一百多部，其中包括詩歌、小說和劇本等。她是一位充滿想象力的兒童文學作家，一生共出版了四十多部兒童文學作品，其中大部分已經(jīng)成為世界兒童文學中的經(jīng)典之作。伊迪斯的兒童文學主要分為兩類：一類是小說，代表作有《尋寶六人組合》、《闖禍的快樂少年》、《想做好孩子》和《鐵路邊的孩子們》等，主要描寫現(xiàn)實家庭的冒險故事，這類作品對兒童性格刻畫鮮明，對家庭生活描寫真切動人；另一類是童話故事，代表作有《五個孩子和一個怪物》、《魔堡》等，這些故事懸念重重、曲折離奇、想象力豐富，給孩子以身臨其境、真實可信的感覺。