Dame Jacqueline Wilson (Ian West/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Dame Jacqueline Wilson has written a reimagined version of classic children’s story The Railway Children. The author’s new book The Primrose Railway Children will be published by Puffin in September. Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children was originally published in 1906. (Ian West/PA) The book has been illustrated by Rachael Dean. The Railway Children tells the story of a mother and her three children who move to the countryside after their father disappears.