Edith Nesbit: The phoenix and the carpet (1982, Puffin)
250 pages
English language
Published March 6, 1982 by Puffin.
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
