Five Children and It

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Five Children and It

Author : E. Nesbit

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Highlights

English

Language

New ed

Edition

256

Pages

9780140367355

ISBN-13

0140367355

ISBN-10

Penguin / Puffin

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

16 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead , in a gravel pit. Every day It will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences. Never out of print since 1902. The Introduction to this edition examines Nesbits life and her reading, showing the change in childrens literature from Victorian times. Paperback , 237 pages Published December 1st 1996 by Puffin first published 1902