“It’s like a big green dragon!”
「它好像一頭巨大的綠龍！」

Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their mother and father. One day their father is taken to prison and everything changes. The children move to the countryside with their mother to start a new life. There isn’t much money and the children are worried about their father. They spend a lot of time by the railway watching and waving at the trains that go to London. One day an old gentleman waves back and Bobbie has an idea.

芭比、彼得和菲麗絲原先和父母親在倫敦過著快樂的生活，直到有一天他們的爸爸被關進監獄，一切都變了。他們只得和母親搬到鄉下去展開新生活。他們家經濟拮据，而且三姊弟擔心爸爸的狀況。他們花很多時間在鐵路旁，看著開往倫敦的火車，並向車上乘客揮手。有一天，一位老紳士回應了他們，而此時芭比有了個點子。

Can this man help the children’s father?
Find out in this fun story full of love and hope.

這位老紳士有辦法幫助孩子們的父親嗎？答案就在這本充滿愛與盼望的歡樂故事中。



適合程度：CEF A1, Cambridge KET, Headwords: 400, 全民英檢初級

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作者簡介：

Edith Nesbit (伊迪絲‧內斯比特) is born on 15th August 1858 in London. She is one of five children. Her first years are happy because she and her brothers and sisters have a lot of freedom. But when Edith is only three and a half years old, Mr Nesbit dies suddenly. After that the family often moves house and Edith lives in many different places, both in England and abroad. She goes to several boarding schools, but she doesn’t like school life very much.
Edith get married with Hubert Bland in 1880 and move to south-east London. During the next five years they have three children. Because they haven’t got much money, Edith writes short stories and articles for magazines to help the family. Edith’s most famous book is probably The Railway Children, published in 1906. Edith moves away from London to a village on the south coast of England in 1917. She dies there in 1924.