The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

Overview

It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted, and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space -- which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512257113
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2015
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)
Lexile:	1000L (what's this?)

About the Author

English author and poet Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) is best remembered as E. Nesbit, the name she used for all of her children's books and stories. She achieved fame for Five Children and It, The House of Arden and The Railway Children, which has become one of the most cherished classics of English literature.

Table of Contents

1	The Egg	1
2	The Topless Tower	29
3	The Queen Cook	56
4	Two Bazaars	84
5	The Temple	110
6	Doing Good	137
7	Mews from Persia	159
8	The Cats, the Cow, and the Burglar	182
9	The Burglar's Bride	203
10	The Hole in the Carpet	225
11	The Beginning of the End	248
12	The End of the End	268

Editorial Reviews

No childhood is complete without The Railway Children.” —The Telegraph

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