The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside. The five children: Cyril, Anthea, Jane, Robert, and their baby brother. While playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead (a sand fairy) who has the ability to grant wishes. He grants each of the children 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, when all that children wished for was food and the bones of which then became fossils. The five...
The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside. The five children: Cyril, Anthea, Jane, Robert, and their baby brother....
The Story of the Amulet is a children's novel by E. Nesbit, first published in 1906. It's the final chapter of a trilogy of novels. The children in story re-encounter the Psammead-the "it" in Five Children and It. "It" no longer grants wishes to the children, but advises in the children's other discovery, the Amulet. Like os story of time travel, The Story of the Amulet is one in which "Nesbit's powers of invention are at their best.
The Story of the Amulet is a children's novel by E. Nesbit, first published in 1906. It's the final chapter of a trilogy of novels. The children in st...
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,...
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 o...
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The five...
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels ...
The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess. The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows...
The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in th...