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  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141340869
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.00

The Phoenix and the Carpet




Puffin Classics - the very best stories brought to life for a new generation.

It's startling enough to have a phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it talks and reveals that you have a magic carpet on the floor. The vain and ancient bird accompanies the children on a series of adventures through time and space which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant . . .

This sequel to Five Children and It continues the magical adventures of siblings Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother.

  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141340869
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was born in 1858. Her father died when she was only three and so her family moved all over England. Poverty was something she had known first hand, both as a child and as a young married woman with small children. Like the Railway Childrens' Mother, she was forced to try and sell her stories and poems to editors. Her first children's book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899. She also wrote Five Children and It but her most famous story is The Railway Children which was first published in 1905 and it hasn't been out of print since. Edith Nesbit was a lady ahead of her time - she cut her hair short, which was considered a very bold move in Victorian times, and she was a founding member of a group that worked towards improvements in politics and society called The Fabian Society. She died in 1924.

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Praise for The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Puffin Classics series is a perfect marriage of the old and the new. Enjoy some of the best books from the past and find out why and how they inspired some of the best writers of the present

Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4Kids