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Favourite Stories of Courageous Girls by Louisa May Alcott; Brothers Grimm; L. M. Montgomery; L. Frank Baum; Hans Christian Andersen; E. Nesbit; Charlotte Brontë; Enid Blyton; Lewis Carroll; Hodgson Burnett; Frances
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Category: Childrens
This wonderful anthology features the stories of some of the best-loved heroines in children's books. From Jo March who sells her hair to raise money for her family, to George's single-minded commitment to protecting her island in The Famous Five to Bobbie's quick-thinking action that prevents a train c ...Show more
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
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Category: Childrens | 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 by E. Nesbit
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Category: Classics
A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Classics in beautiful paperback cover designs. When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother go digging in the gravel pit, the last thing they expect to find is a Psammead - an ancient sand ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Childrens | Series: Psammead | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body of ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Classics | 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 (Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Childrens | 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
Horror Stories: Penguin Worlds by E. Nesbit
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Worlds
"Every word of this story is as true as despair' Before she became a world-famous children's author E. Nesbit wrote for adults. She penned a great many ghost and horror stories, of which the very best are gathered here. These tales of terror feature sinister activities on All Hallow's Eve, church haunti ...Show more
New Treasure Seekers (Bastable Family #3) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The final instalment of the escapades of the Bastable children.Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H. O. and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald o ...Show more
Olivia Colman Reads The Railway Children (Famous Fiction) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Audio Books | Series: Famous Fiction
Olivia Colman reads Edith Nesbit's classic novel The Railway Children is a masterpiece of children's fiction. It wonderfully evokes a bygone age and is packed with fun, excitement and adventure. When their father goes away unexpectedly, Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis have to move from London to a c ...Show more
Shakespeare Retold by E. Nesbit
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Category: Non-Fiction
A beautifully illustrated collection of prose retellings of seven Shakespeare plays will bring the Bard to life for young readers. Not only is this a beautiful keepsake edition, full of gorgeous illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo, but the prose retellings by beloved classic children's book author E ...Show more
The Lark by E. Nesbit
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Women Writers Ser.
It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures--cutting flowers from their fro ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E Nesbit
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the car ...Show more