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Five Children and It - A Classic Children's Fantasy of Wishes, Magic, and Adventure
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604596922
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 25 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A delightful and influential children's fantasy, Five Children and It is Edith Nesbit's classic tale of magic, wishes, mischief, and the unexpected trouble that follows getting exactly what you ask for.
When five children-Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb-move to the countryside, they discover a strange creature in a gravel pit: the Psammead, an ancient sand-fairy with the power to grant wishes. At first the children think they have found the answer to every dream, but each wish lasts only until sunset and nearly every one brings complications they never imagined. Beauty, wealth, wings, castles, size, and power all prove far more difficult to manage than they sound.
First published in 1902, Five Children and It remains one of the great works of classic children's literature. Nesbit combines humor, fantasy, family life, and moral comedy with a modern sense of how children actually think, quarrel, hope, and make mistakes. Its blend of everyday realism and magical disruption helped shape later children's fantasy, making the impossible feel as if it could appear just beyond the garden, in a field, or under the sand.
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