Sinopsis: Un clásico de la literatura inglesa, igualmente entretenido para niños y mayores, que no se ha dejado de imprimir desde 1906.Después de que su padre se ausentara misteriosamente de casa, Bobbie, Peter y Phyllis se mudan con su madre a una pequeña casa de campo llamada las Tres Chimeneas, al lado de una estación de tren. Pronto los niños descubren cuánta diversión se esconde en ese mundo nuevo para ellos y se hacen amigos de todos, desde el jefe de estación hasta de un señor mayor que los saluda cada mañana a las 9:15 en punto, cuando pasa el tren en el que viaja. Pero el misterio de la desaparición de su padre se cierne sobre ellos. ¿Dónde estará? ¿Va a volver?Este clásico de Nesbit, de prosa sencilla y lúcida, es una de las historias más entrañables sobre el paso de la infancia a la edad adulta que se han escrito.… (más)
themulhern: C. S. Lewis asserted that Nesbit was one of his influences for the Narnia books. In this book, the predicament is a very ill mother, rather than an incarcerated father.
I'm in awe of E. Nesbit as a storyteller for children. Her charm, warmth and understanding as a narrator are wonderful, and I'm sorry I never discovered her as a child. Nevertheless, she can be enjoyed by adults too, as happens with many of the best writers for children.
Although her talent is the same as in the Five Children and It series, here the stakes seem higher. Younger readers will enjoy the many adventures of the three children, but adults will also appreciate the darker social themes, as the family has to give up their privileged lifestyle and learn to live in poverty in the father's absence.
One could maybe take issue with how often the children are in a position to save others and with how convenient their "old gentleman" as a deus ex machina, but, seriously, the story is too wonderful and charming for me to care.
E. Nesbit is a master of her craft. Her insight into children's way of thinking is remarkable. ( )
When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. Each day, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to Father. Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father's disappearance.
When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. Each day, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to Father. Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father's disappearance.
Charming in its way, though more than a little preachy and optimistically naive. Puts me in mind of Keats's opinion that "We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us." Could have been subtitled "People Will Help You if You're Wealthy and Then Get in Trouble." ( )
I have always loved the film, in fact it is probably my favourite family film , the book is very close in content to the film and therefore wonderful and it has the Oh My Daddy bit at the end which always gets me in the film. This is my first time reading the book- loved it. ( )
Everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on. Which is quite true, if you come to think of it, and a useful thing to remember in seasons of trouble—such as measles, arithmetic, impositions, and those times when you are in disgrace, and feel as though no one would ever love you again, and you could never—never again—love anybody.
At the end of the field, among thin gold spikes of grass and the harebells and Gipsy roses and St John's Wort, we may just take one last look, over our shoulders, at the white house where neither we nor anyone else is wanted now.
Sinopsis: Un clásico de la literatura inglesa, igualmente entretenido para niños y mayores, que no se ha dejado de imprimir desde 1906.Después de que su padre se ausentara misteriosamente de casa, Bobbie, Peter y Phyllis se mudan con su madre a una pequeña casa de campo llamada las Tres Chimeneas, al lado de una estación de tren. Pronto los niños descubren cuánta diversión se esconde en ese mundo nuevo para ellos y se hacen amigos de todos, desde el jefe de estación hasta de un señor mayor que los saluda cada mañana a las 9:15 en punto, cuando pasa el tren en el que viaja. Pero el misterio de la desaparición de su padre se cierne sobre ellos. ¿Dónde estará? ¿Va a volver?Este clásico de Nesbit, de prosa sencilla y lúcida, es una de las historias más entrañables sobre el paso de la infancia a la edad adulta que se han escrito.
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Although her talent is the same as in the Five Children and It series, here the stakes seem higher. Younger readers will enjoy the many adventures of the three children, but adults will also appreciate the darker social themes, as the family has to give up their privileged lifestyle and learn to live in poverty in the father's absence.
One could maybe take issue with how often the children are in a position to save others and with how convenient their "old gentleman" as a deus ex machina, but, seriously, the story is too wonderful and charming for me to care.
E. Nesbit is a master of her craft. Her insight into children's way of thinking is remarkable. (