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New Releases by Edith NesbitEdith Nesbit is the author of The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated) (2024), Oxford Children's Classics: The Railway Children (2023), The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated Edition) (2022), The Story of the Amulet Illustrated (2022), The Enchanted Castle (Illustarted) (2021).
The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated)
release date: Jan 15, 2024
Oxford Children's Classics: The Railway Children
release date: Aug 31, 2023
The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated Edition)
release date: Nov 13, 2022
The Story of the Amulet Illustrated
release date: Feb 15, 2022
The Enchanted Castle (Illustarted)
release date: Dec 11, 2021
The Railway Children : Illustrated Edition
release date: Nov 09, 2021
The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit (Illustrated)
release date: Aug 29, 2021
The Phoenix and the Carpet Edith Nesbit (Illustrated)
release date: Aug 29, 2021
release date: Aug 28, 2021
The Story of the Amulet (Illustrated Edition)
release date: Aug 07, 2021
The Book of Dragons - Edith Nesbit
release date: Jul 19, 2021
Five Children and It:(illustrated Edition)
release date: Jul 05, 2021
Five Children and It Illustrated
release date: Jun 02, 2021
Five Children and It (Annotated)
release date: May 02, 2021
The Enchanted Castle Illustrated
release date: Apr 25, 2021
The Phoenix and the Carpet
release date: Jan 05, 2021
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
release date: Jan 05, 2021
release date: Jan 05, 2021
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT - a Children's Adventure Story
release date: Jan 04, 2021
Five Children and IT is a children’s book, no. 1 of The Psammead cycle, written by Edit Nesbit and published in 1902. It has never been out of print since. The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children are Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb. One day they are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead – an ancient sand-fairy with ability to grant wishes. The Psammead 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 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. As expected, all the wishes go comically wrong. The children wish to be beautiful, but the servants do not recognise them and shut them out of the house. They wish to be rich, then find themselves with a gravel-pit full of gold spade guineas that no shop will accept as they were removed from circulation in 1816, so they can''t buy anything. A wish for wings seems to be going well, but at sunset the children find themselves stuck on top of a church bell tower with no way down, getting them into trouble with the gamekeeper who must take them home - and so the wishing and the ensuing adventures continue. The book was made into a film in 2004 featuring Freddie Highmore, Jonathan Bailey. Jessica Claridge, Poppy Rogers and Alec Muggleton, with Kenneth Branagh as Uncle Albert and Tara Fitzgerald as the mother. It has won a number of awards and been nominated for a Bafta. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book is donated to charities. ================= KEYWORDS/TAGS: Five children and It, 5, action, adventure, Beautiful, Golden Guineas, Wanted, Wings, Castle, No Dinner, Siege, Bed, Bigger, Baker''s Boy, Grown Up, Scalps, Last Wish, Psammead cycle, Glorious Rush, Round the Garden, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, little lamb, Door, Hutch, Scream, Baby, acknowledgement, Martha, Empty, Toilet-jug, pour Cold Water, falling Rain, Slow Drops, Anthea''s Face. Stagger, Mr. Beale, Snatch, Coin, Pocket, Martha, Policeman, Mr Peasemarsh, Lucky Children, Gravel Pit, Poof, Grab, Double-quick Time, Twinkling Legs, Two Gypsy Women, Sand-fairy, Blow, fly over, Rochester, Farmer, Pockets, Fast Asleep, The Keeper, Deep-Chested, Keyhole, Castle, Black, Stately, Drag, Reluctant, Tear, Splash, Moat-water, Leadhole, Sammyadd, Haystack, Strange Sensation, Pony-carriage, Giant, Pale and Trembling, Time''s Up, Case, Garden Spade, Tickling His Nose, Twig, Honeysuckle, Bicycle, Punctured State, Evidence, Struggle, Missionary Box, Poker, Pow-wow, Bright Knives, Brandished, Clasp, Loving Arms, Obedient, Burrow, Disappear, Scratching,
The Railway Children Annotated
release date: Dec 22, 2020
Five Children and It(classics Illustrated)
release date: Dec 08, 2020
release date: Dec 01, 2020
The Enchanted Castle Annotated
release date: Oct 18, 2020
The Story of the Amulet-Classic Edition(Illustrated)
release date: Jun 01, 2020
The Children's Shakespeare
release date: Dec 01, 2000
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