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Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
$16.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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
$19.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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 (Vintage Classics: Psammead #1) by E. Nesbit
$14.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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
$22.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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 Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin Classics: Psammead #2) by E. Nesbit
$12.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Psammead
It's startling enough to have a phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it talks and reveals that you have a magic carpet on the floor. The vain and ancient bird accompanies the children on a series of adventures through time and space which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by E. Nesbit
$17.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | 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
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