| Five Children and It (1902) children's NOVEL by: Edith Nesbit (Illustrated) Contributor(s): Nesbit, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1542702445 ISBN-13: 9781542702447 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 8" W x 10" (0.61 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was first published as a book in 1902, having been expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, |