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Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit & Harold Robert Millar (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit is a fantasy children's 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 unrecognizable beauty to unwanted 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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “Fairies” and “fairies”. Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the subject metadata.

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    • “fairies”· via Project Gutenberg
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Editions

Open Library reports 950 editions; 2 cataloged here.

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2005-12-15NetLibrary; Project GutenbergEnglish
  • 9780585007014
  • 0585007012
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Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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1997-01-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 950 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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