Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

"Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit is a children's fantasy novel published in 1902. When five siblings discover a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy called the Psammead in a gravel pit, they're granted one wish per day—but there's a catch. Each wish vanishes at sunset, and every desire goes hilariously and dangerously wrong. From unwanted beauty to unspendable riches, from inconvenient wings to a besieged castle, the children learn that getting what you wish for isn't always what you want. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924
Illustrator Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert), 1869-1942
Title Five Children and It
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Children_and_It
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 89.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Siblings -- Fiction
Subject Wishes -- Fiction
Subject Fairies -- Fiction
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 17314
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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