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.


Sapphire/Band 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


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