Phoenix and the Carpet

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Edith Nesbit: Phoenix and the Carpet (2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

158 pages

English language

Published 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

ISBN:
978-1-9839-4177-1
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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.

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Review of 'The Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

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.

Enjoyably strange

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

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Subjects

  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)