- Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Classics; New edition edition (29 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140367357
- ISBN-13: 978-0140367355
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Five Children and It: Psammead Trilogy, Book 1
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The entrancing combination of magic with the everyday trials of childhood. 'It' is a Psammead, an ancient, ugly and irritable sand-fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them one wish a day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing.
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EDITH NESBIT was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, THE TREASURE SEEKERS, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including FIVE CHILDREN AND IT also became very popular. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN was first published monthly in the LONDON MAGAZINE in 1905, and published as a book in 1906 and has been in print ever since.
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The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we nearly there?' Read the first page
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The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we nearly there?' Read the first page
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a wonderful book! I strongly recomend it for teachers and students! This is a book for all ages. This book is humorous but keeps a good plot. Just try this book, I guarentee you'll be hooked from the first page. The Sand Fairy has a way of making the wishes, not as you expected. A wonderful read!
30 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
E. Nesbit may have written this 100 years ago but her writing has retained it's freshness and humour because she saw children as people, not as empty vessels waiting to be filled with life deadening facts. Not so usual in 1901.
Social realism and humour abound in her books and like her laws of magic, there are no set rules to how she wrote her books. She established new territory that all subsequent good writers for children have had the freedom to explore.
National Curriculum Literacy strategists take note. Nesbit did not learn to write by investigating non-fictional texts. She had a vivid and exciting childhood, free of of academic constraints.
Read this book and all the Nesbits. Her books of full of the true magic of childhood.
Social realism and humour abound in her books and like her laws of magic, there are no set rules to how she wrote her books. She established new territory that all subsequent good writers for children have had the freedom to explore.
National Curriculum Literacy strategists take note. Nesbit did not learn to write by investigating non-fictional texts. She had a vivid and exciting childhood, free of of academic constraints.
Read this book and all the Nesbits. Her books of full of the true magic of childhood.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
Kept my five-year-old and ten-year-old entranced for a whole journey to the Lake District and back, and we enjoyed it too. It was funny and suspenseful and wise, and the Psammead's voice was brilliantly done - brought out all its grumpy cat qualities.
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Old fashioned stories
After the DVD it was great for the Grandchildren to read the original. They thought it great that the story to them was almost historical
Published 7 months ago by P. Hudson
Good story but hard going
My 8 yr old saw the TV adaptation of this story and loved it. However the book is nothing like the TV version! Read more
Published 7 months ago by frock_lady
A charming classic children's book
Five Children and It tells the story of Robert, Anthea, Cyril and Jane and their baby brother, known affectionately as the Lamb. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Katie Stevens
An amusing story, but showing its age
My family & I saw the film recently. As I had heard the story as a child and my daughter (age 6) enjoyed the film, we bought the book. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Joanna
Sorry but I have read better.
My six yr old boy not keen does not understand some of the language from the "olden times" my daughter does and is enjoying it. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2010 by Mama Cutie
A bit oldfashioned but still fantastic!
This book's author, E. Nesbit, has written other stories including `The Railway Children', `The Enchanted Castle' and `The Phoenix & the Carpet'. Read more
Published on 2 May 2008 by Mehajabeen Farid
lots of interesting twists
This is the story of 5 children who, while digging in the sand find a sand fairy that will grant them 1 wish a day. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2006 by Alexa
An extremely enjoyable book for young readers
"Five Children and It" is Edith Nesbit's enchanting novel about four naughty children and a cute baby who find a fairy that will grant them a wish a day. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2004 by Cecilia S. Idiart
An ok book for middle schoolers
5 children go digging for rocks and shells one day and they come upon this yellow bat, monkey, and snail like creature. Read more
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