Five Children and It Book Reviews
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit Book Summary
The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit the five children – Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – uncover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He 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 children wished for was food, the bones of which then became fossils. However, when the five children's first wish, to be "as beautiful as the day", ends at sunset, its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone. All the wishes go comically wrong. When the children wish to be beautiful the servants do not recognise them and shut them out of the house. When they wish to be rich they find themselves with a gravel-pit full of gold spade guineas that no shop will accept as they are no longer in circulation, 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 (though this wish has the happy side-effect of introducing the gamekeeper to the children's housemaid, who later marries him). After being bullied by the baker's boy Robert wishes that he was bigger, whereupon he becomes eleven feet tall and the other children show him at a travelling fair for coins. They also wish themselves into a castle, only to learn that it is being besieged, while a wish to meet real Red Indians ends with the children nearly being scalped.
Book Name | Five Children and It |
Genre | Fantasy for Young Adults |
Author | Edith Nesbit |
Published | 01 January 1902, Wednesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 132.23 KB |
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Book. This book was very interesting at times but can also get very boring
🤔 Slightly Strange 🤔. The reason I think this is strange might only be because of my opinions on a good book, but the fact that the ‘sand fairy’, or the Psammead is part spider, part monkey and part other things is a bit weird, right?
So good. I loved it it was so gripping !!!
I would have. I would have liked it if the person below did not ruin it for me and give a ton of spoilers .why! why would you do that⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Great. Absolutely great. An old classic yet still amazing. One of the best books ever!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love it. Lovely kids story.
Bought this now that. Ive bought the book Four children and it by Jacqueline Wilson
Five children and it. This book talks about four eager children (and one baby) discover a Psammead in the ancient sand pit who grants them wishes every day. It is just wonderful and exciting to me and at the end of the story they promised not another wish. This book is so great that I really love and adore it. Hope you like it too!😉
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Summary of Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
The Five Children and It book written by Edith Nesbit was published on 01 January 1902, Wednesday in the Fantasy for Young Adults category. A total of 159 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.
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