""Amongst those whose imagination is capable of inventing a new and complete fairyland, who can be more certain of a welcome than Mrs. Nesbit?"" - Truth, 1904
"""It" is the Psammead. If you are a grown-up you will not believe that the Psammead ever existed. If you are a child you will be sorry when the book ends. The Psammead was a peculiar sand fairy the Five Children discovered in a sand-pit. It had the power to grant them any wish they asked for; invariably the wishes fulfilled led them into trouble, and they were not satisfied with the results."" - Spalding Guardian, 1925
""I am not quite sure that the story of The Phoenix and the Carpet does not deserve to be the most popular children's story of the year, for the adventures of the family of children who are blessed with the possession of the wonderful bird and wonderful carpet are told with just the happy knack of realism which enables the child to follow them with thrilling interest."" - Desmond O'Brien, 1904
""The Story of the Amulet, is perhaps, one of the best which Mrs Nesbit has written. It conveys instruction in its most alluring form, and it sparkles with that kind of delicate humour to which educated children are always susceptible."" - Western Daily Press, 1906
""Mrs Nesbit is one of our very best writers about children, her knowledge of the mechanism of the youthful mind approaching sometimes to that uncanny perception which is Mr. Barrie's own."" - Pall Mall Gazette, 1906
""[Her books] appeal to children who love fun, and who make great occasions out of all sorts of small happenings; who believe in magic and in talking animals; who have high spirits and occasional fits of naughtiness and perversity, but who are loveable withal."" - The Westminster Gazette, 1906