The Railway Children : Band 16/Sapphire

A new chance to follow the lives of Roberta, Phyllis and Peter as they relocate to the country and make friends with station guard Perks, in a lovely retelling of the old favourite written for children by E. Nesbit in the early Twentieth Century. SapphireBand 16 books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage