After getting into their elders' bad books and being sent to stay in the country 'to learn to be good', the Bastable children and their two friends Daisy and Denny formed themselves into the Society of the Wouldbegoods.
With the best of intentions they set out each day to be helpful to others, but always became involved in further trouble, as, for instance, when their pet goat did acrobatics on the kitchen dresser.
The Wouldbegoods is not available online yet, but here is a free ebook of The Railway Children . Highly recommended in any form.
Update: Thanks to Sharilyn from lovelydesign for these two great suggestions:
— You can find a copy of The Wouldbegoods from abebooks.com, here. It is part of the Treasure Seekers series.
— There is an annotated and illustrated version of The Railway Children from Usborne books that you can find here.
And an update from us, too:
— Watch The Railway Children (1970) right on youtube.
We love the railway children! (for little children, and beginning readers, there is a nice illustrated annotated version available of this book from Usborne books) http://www.usbornebooksathome.ca/usborne_books/browse.asp?css=1&cat=1&subject=ey&subcat=eypb&id=2532
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recommendation of The wouldbegoods, I am always on the search for *more* books to read to my kid! xox.
(The Wouldbegoods also available from Abebooks.com, cheap!)
ReplyDeleteFantastic, thanks for letting us know. We'll update the post.
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