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Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
Five siblings discover a Psammead — a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy — who grants them one wish per day. Each wish goes hilariously and catastrophically wrong. The book that invented modern children's fantasy.
Historical Significance:
Edith Nesbit published Five Children and It in 1902, and it changed children's literature forever. Before Nesbit, children's fantasy was either moralistic or set in entirely separate magical worlds. Nesbit was the first to ...
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Five siblings discover a Psammead — a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy — who grants them one wish per day. Each wish goes hilariously and catastrophically wrong. The book that invented modern children's fantasy.
Historical Significance:
Edith Nesbit published Five Children and It in 1902, and it changed children's literature forever. Before Nesbit, children's fantasy was either moralistic or set in entirely separate magical worlds. Nesbit was the first to ...
Read free on BoingyBooks: https://boingybooks.com/marketplace/product.php?id=254
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