Five Children and It

Name: Five Children and It
Author: Edith Nesbit
ISBN: 9781787244771

Author: Edith Nesbit
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 176 pages
ISBN: 9781787244771
Published: 12 March 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

siblings
adventure
magical creature
wishes
consequences
responsibility
imagination
fantasy
lessons
Psammead

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"Five Children and It" by Edith Nesbit follows the adventures of the adventurous siblings who discover a magical creature, the Psammead, granting wishes with unpredictable outcomes. Each wish leads to comic misadventures, teaching valuable lessons about consequences, responsibility, and the fleeting nature of desires. Nesbit's enchanting tale explores the boundary between fantasy and reality, emphasizing the transformative power of imagination in the lives of these spirited children.

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E. Nesbit (1858–1924) reinvented children's literature by letting magic walk into ordinary English life — leftover tea, railway platforms, and wishes that go wrong in the most practical ways. The Railway Children, the Bastable books, and the Psammead adventures taught young readers that wonder need not be solemn. Nesbit wrote as an adult who still remembered how children actually talk: funny, fierce, and rarely pious.

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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781802562255