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Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
When five siblings - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother, the Lamb - discover a sand-fairy in their gravel pit, they are jolly surprised and a little delighted. Even better, the Psammead is able to grant them wishes, although the magic wears off at the day's end. Unfortunately, all of the ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
E. Nesbit's original story, now with a brand new cover by Nick Sharratt to accompany Jacqueline Wilson's number one bestselling sequel Four Children and It. Jacqueline Wilson is the multi-award winning, phenomenally successful creator of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather and Lily Alone. When Cyril, Anthea, Ro ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
$19.98 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Psammead
'I love her books - particularly the Five Children and It sequence' - Neil Gaiman Digging in the gravel pit on a hot summer's day, five children discover 'it': a grumpy creature with eyes like a snail's, ears like a bat's, and a tubby body all covered in fur. 'It' is a Psammead, an ancient sand-fairy w ...Show more
Five Children and It (Vintage Classics: Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when they are faced with the grumpy sand-fairy they find it d ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E. Nesbit
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children find an egg inside, and, when one of them accidentally drops it into the fire, it hatches into a magical golden phoenix, ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E. Nesbit
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
This is the second book in the Psammead Trilogy, following Five Children and It. 'For the egg was now red-hot, and inside it something was moving. Next moment there was a soft cracking sound; the egg burst in two, and out of it came a flame-coloured bird...' When a stone egg rolls out of the old rug t ...Show more
The Psammead Trilogy: Five Children and It; The Phoenix and the Carpet; The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit
$43.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
A great collection to include Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet. All the books contain extra material for your readers, a glossary and a test yourself section. When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from t ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by E. Nesbit
$17.98 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic a ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by E. Nesbit
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Psammead
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead--the "it" in Five Children and I ...Show more
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