Five Children and It
While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: “Its eyes were on long horns like a snail’s eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes; it had ears like a bat’s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider’s and covered with thick soft fur; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkey’s.” The Psammead is magical and, every day, the ancient and irritable creature grants each of them a wish that lasts until sunset. Soon, though, they find their wishes never seem to turn out right and often have unexpected—and humorous—consequences. But…
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December 28, 2004E. Nesbit (1858–1924) spent her childhood in France and Germany and later lived in England. She began writing fantasy and adventure stories for children in the early 1890s and is renowned for her strong-willed young characters. Her novels include The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898), Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904), and The Railway Children (1906).
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by C. E. Brock
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Bruce Coville
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Laurel Snyder
The Book of Dragons
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by E. Nesbit; Introduction and Notes by Gillian Avery
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. AndersonThe Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by Cecil LeslieE. Nesbit (1858–1924) spent her childhood in France and Germany and later lived in England. She began writing fantasy and adventure stories for children in the early 1890s and is renowned for her strong-willed young characters. Her novels include The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898), Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904), and The Railway Children (1906).
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by C. E. Brock
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Bruce Coville
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Laurel Snyder
The Book of Dragons
E. Nesbit; illustrated by H. R. Millar; introduction by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by E. Nesbit; Introduction and Notes by Gillian Avery
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. AndersonThe Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit; Illustrated by Cecil Leslie
How to Talk to Your Succulent
Zoe Persico
The City of Lost Cats
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
The Puffin Keeper
Michael Morpurgo; illustrated by Benji Davies
I Am Wind
Rachel Poliquin; illustrated by Rachel Wada
Reasons to Look at the Night Sky
Danielle Daniel
Boy vs. Shark
Paul Gilligan
Library Girl
Polly Horvath
Team Park
Angela Ahn
Billy and the Giant Adventure
Jamie Oliver; illustrations by Mónica Armiño
Unstoppable Us: The Two-Book Boxed Set
Yuval Noah Harari; illustrated by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz
Tig
Heather Smith
The Grave Thief
Dee Hahn
The Sleeping Giant
David A. Robertson
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Botchan
Natsume Soseki