The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version)

This book is Volume II-2 of the series of readers of Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP). It is suitable for readers with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a project in which ESL/EFL learners at elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach upper-intermediate level (with a vocabulary of about 3,500 words). This project contains about 40 simplified readers, enough for an ESL/EFL learner to read for two years, and this list is growing.

[Text Information]
Readability || 88.7
Total word count || 18412
Words beyond 1500 || 496
Headwords beyond 1500 || 186
Unknown word percentage (%) || 2.69
Unknown headword percentage (%) || 1.01
Unknown headword occurrence || 2.66
Unknown words that occur 5 times or more || 24
Unknown words that occur 2 times or more || 90

[Synopsis]
This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants. One night, Father is taken away to prison (but they do not know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line. Mother writes stories to earn some money to support them. In time they make many new friends, and many wonderful adventures happen near the railway and the canal….
This book is rewritten from “The Railway Station” by the famous English writer E. Nesbit (1858~1924). It was first published in book form in 1906 and has been adapted for the screen several times.