Edith Nesbit: Phoenix and the Carpet Psammead #3 Illustrated (2020, Independently Published)
192 pages
English language
Published March 8, 2020 by Independently Published.
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
