E Nesbit
Author
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes. It had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick soft fur—and it had hands and feet like...
Author
Series
Looking glass library book volume 4
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight exciting stories about dragons, daring heroes, and magical kingdoms.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who wrote and collaborated on over 60 books of children's fiction, and is considered today to be one of the founders of modern children's literature. Many of Nesbit's works have been adapted for film and plays, and her popular fantasy stories set the standard for modern children's writers like J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis. This is the second book of Nesbit's three-part Psammead series, so named...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar, and Jane is at high school when the sand fairy, Psammead, suddenly reappears, and his magic has a more serious purpose than when the siblings were children.
Author
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) was an English writer and poet, who authored or collaborated on more than 60 books, primarily for children. She is credited with being "...the first modern writer for children ... who helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature ... in turning away from their secondary [imaginary] worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are." The first third of 'Oswald Bastable and Others'...
14) Melisande
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Cursed by an evil fairy at her christening, Princess Melisande grows up bald but finds herself facing another set of problems when her wish for golden hair is fulfilled.
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