Edith Nesbit: Phoenix and the Carpet (2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
144 pages
English language
Published 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Five British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.
Another 5-star book. Ms. Nesbit's humor, prose, and story-telling truly 'charm' my grandson and me. This series provides wonderful examples of the evolution of the English language and jargon, as well.
Strange, like Five Children & It. Not sure what I was expecting since all I'd ever heard of Nesbit was as the author of the Railway Children so when I saw these two in a roadside library I picked them up
