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Five Children and It [Kindle Edition]

E. (Edith) Nesbit (Author), H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar (Illustrator)
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

About the Author

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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 321 KB
  • Print Length: 109 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1406835013
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004UJ3644
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (180 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #222 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully nostalgic, magical read- not just for children! 15 Dec 2011
By Nicola F (Nic) TOP 500 REVIEWER
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They just don't write children's books like this any more, do they? That's such a shame, because this for me was like taking a journey back to my childhood when my primary school teacher read this aloud to us. I can also remember watching the television show of the same name on Children's BBC and being fascinated (and freaked out) by the psammead!

The magical story unfolds with a family moving to a big white house in the countryside; the children are exploring a gravel pit one day when they encounter a Psammead (pronounced sammyadd)- a sand-fairy. The sand-fairy is a strange little creature but of course the children are intrigued and are soon chatting away with it like they have known him forever- and its even more interesting when they find out he can grant wishes...

Though this is a lovely old-fashioned book and very imaginative, the author creates such vivid scene-setting that as a reader you are able to envisage the sights and surroundings so clearly, without the prose being too overly descriptive or pretentious. One of my very favourite descriptive paragraphs is near the beginning; "...the valley looked as if it was filled with golden mist, and the limekilns and hop-drying houses glimmered and glittered till they were like an enchanted city out of the Arabian Nights." Just lovely. That's only one wonderful description of many in this charming book. The author also addresses the reader as `you' so really pulls you into the story alongside the mischievous children and their adventures. I can remember being curled up on the reading rug at school and listening to my teacher read this aloud to us and how mesmerised everyone was. I really hope to read this to my own (future) children one day!

A beautiful, whimsical tale for adults and children alike.
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33 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The first child friendly book of the 20th century 7 Nov 2001
By A Customer
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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.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Catching up with childhood reading 24 May 2012
By Axonic
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is one of the books every child should read, I'm about 55 years late!
Excellent story, the only downside is there are no pictures in the Kindle edition, so probably should be 4.5 stars, but it was free, after all!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
What can you say about a Book that is just a Classic. Better than all the trash that one sees
Published 6 days ago by Richard Agar
4.0 out of 5 stars five children and it
this book is not just for young children it would also be a fantastic book for teenagers and suprisingly good for adults. so iwould totaly reccomend this book to any 1
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Absolutely wonderful! I've read it hundreds of times and I still love it, I never get tired of it!i recommend this book.
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I liked it because it was enthusiastic and fun to read.
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I Loved the book because of my little girl Taylor watched the movie But I Thought it was Going to be boring buy itisent
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It was really good and I enjoyed it. I really liked reading it and I am going to get more book by E.New but.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Children and it.
i chose book to find out what IT was.Well i did think it was rubbish at first but then i couldn't put it down. very funny in the end.
Published 23 days ago by patricia
4.0 out of 5 stars Five children and it
I enjoyed this book very much.
It had a great story line to it.
I gave it a four out of five.
Published 24 days ago by Juliette
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
This book is nice to read before settling down to sleep and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I would recommend this book to children of the age of 8 plus. Read more
Published 29 days ago by Epiphany Bliss Railton
5.0 out of 5 stars Such real children.
Nesbit's ability to create completly authentic child characters has rarely been equalled to this day. Read more
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