Emma and the silk train / Lawson, Julie

Emma loves to watch the high-speed silk trains as they roar past the station where her father works, and she dreams of having some silk of her own.

Emma, the daughter of a station-master, is fascinated by the fast moving silk trains and their precious cargo, and when one of the trains derails, tossing bales of the wonderful fabric into the river, Emma becomes obsessed with finding some silk of her own.