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Five Children and It

by E. Nesbit

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First published: 1902
Pages: 138

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Beautiful as the Day
43:34
Golden Guineas
38:02
Being Wanted
42:04
Wings
39:51
No Wings
16:07
A Castle and No Dinner
27:27
A Seige and Bed
21:32
Bigger Than the Baker’s Boy
38:03
Grown Up
22:21
Scalps
26:36
The Last Wish
23:09

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About this book

Five Children and It is one of the best loved of all children's fantasy stories, written by E. Nesbit and published in 1902. Staying in the country for the summer, five brothers and sisters dig in a gravel pit and unearth the Psammead, a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy with the power to grant one wish a day, though each wish lasts only until sunset. The children wish for beauty, for wealth, for wings, and for much else besides, and every time their heart's desire goes comically and alarmingly wrong. Funny, clever, and warm, the book set the pattern for a whole tradition of magic breaking into ordinary family life.

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E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who transformed children's literature with realistic, funny, and magical stories such as The Railway Children and Five Children and It.