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The Railway Children review – Turnage reimagines classic story in a lively family opera

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Rachael Hewer’s new 80s-set version of E Nesbit’s tale has a Le Carré meets the Famous Five vibe and boasts a strong cast, imaginative staging and a vivid, colour-filled score

The Guardian - UK

The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star

Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced life in Yorkshire in this irresistible adaptation

The Guardian - UK

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone review – this E Nesbit tale definitely ain’t The Railway Children

Mark Gatiss’s seventh festive horror tale is an adaptation of a short story by the children’s author – with added sisterhood and righteous vengeance

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Exclusive interview: Éanna Hardwicke on starring in A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone stars Éanna Hardwicke as a Victorian newly-wed who gets the fright of his life.

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Christmas Eve TV: E Nesbit’s classic ghost story is a festive fright

Woman of Stone is the spine-chilling tale of two marble effigies that come to life. Plus: a magical night of Doctor Who music. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Can fairytales and fantasy compete with Fortnite? How to get kids reading at any age

Books, comics, films, video games … does it matter how children discover stories? Keeping an open mind is just one way to help get them hooked

The Guardian - UK

Kate Saunders obituary

Prize-winning novelist who won the Costa award for Five Children on the Western Front and whose Belfry Witches stories were adapted for TV

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The Railway Children Return review: A belated sequel that doesn’t have anything meaningful to say about racism

The story is sincere but simplified, dancing perilously close to the kind of historical revisionism that whitewashes Britain’s racist past

The Independent UK

The Railway Children Return movie review: this cosy sequel to a classic champions the underdog

Taking real-life wartime racial tensions as a backdrop, this otherwise comforting movie is a sweet homage to the classic original

Evening Standard

Daddy! My Daddy! Children’s authors on enduring classic The Railway Children: ‘It has an urgent truth to tell’

As the long-awaited sequel to The Railway Children hits cinemas, we ask a panel of children’s authors what they think about the original film and book

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