Five Children and It - E. Nesbit - Children's Classic Books - 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 ...
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Five Children and It - E. Nesbit - Children's Classic Books - 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, when all that children wished for was food, the bones of which then became fossils. The five children's first wish is to be "as beautiful as the day." The wish ends at sunset and its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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H. R. Millar. Near Fine in Good jacket. A wonderfully illustrated edition of E. Nesbit's famed children's novel, in an unclipped dust wrapper. E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English poet and children's author, writing and collaborating on over sixty works for children. As well as 'Five Children and It', one of her most famous works, she wrote 'The Railway Children', 'The Enchanted Castle' and 'The Magic City'. This work was first published in the Strand magazine in 1902, before being expanded into a novel. It was followed with two sequels. The plot follows a group of children who have recently moved to the countryside as they stumble across a sand-fairy, the Psammead, and their subsequent adventures. Â Illustrated with full page drawings throughout by H. R. Millar. In a full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely, very slight fading to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is unclipped, rather runned to the spine, with a large crack running up the front joint and chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Near Fine.
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