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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781853261244
ISBN: 1853261246
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: December 01, 1993
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 24083
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This book's author, E. Nesbit, has written other stories including `The Railway Children', `The Enchanted Castle' and `The Phoenix & the Carpet'. This is her most well-loved, well-known and best-selling book.
She was born in London in the year of 1858, which is about 150 years ago now. The illustrator was H. R. Millar; here is a bit about him:
After studying art for a while, he began illustrating for magazines in Birmingham. Soon, he was invited to London by the editor of the Graphic, and worked for many periodicals, including the English Illustrated Magazine, Punch, and Good Words, and being a frequent artist on the Strand Magazine, where amid other work and he illustrated fiction by E. Nesbit.
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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. Sounds simple enough but the fairy never grants the wish in the way you think he will. A funny light hearted story with lots of intresting twists . The plot of the story is very good and unique and doesn't slows down for a second.
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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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"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. The story is ingenious and well-plotted and is written in a fresh, modern style that will hugely entertain the young reader. Moreover, he or she will be able to extract from this book several sweet messages about goodness, generosity and the value of reflection.
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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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