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Five Children and It (Faber Children's Classics)
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bookshelves: childrens-fiction, read-in-my-twenties, classics, classics-challenge
Oct 05, 2014
bookshelves: childrens-fiction, read-in-my-twenties, classics, classics-challenge
This mini review is part of a blogpost talking about three children's classics.
I chose Five Children and It as my last classic of the year because it was my book club's January pick because most of us also wanted to read Kate Saunders' Five Children on the Western Front . Like Little Women (although I think it's more intentional in Five Children and It), each chapter is like a short story about the group of siblings who each make a wish that the Psammead (a sand fairy) grants, with often chaotic and hilarious results. Although short stories will never be my favourite, it worked quite well in this sense because each chapter was a new day, but of course I still preferred some to others. I connected with E. Nesbit's writing straight away – this is the first book by her that I've read – and I found the dialogue witty and charming. Be careful what you wish for! I'm looking forward to also reading The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure Seekers .
I chose Five Children and It as my last classic of the year because it was my book club's January pick because most of us also wanted to read Kate Saunders' Five Children on the Western Front . Like Little Women (although I think it's more intentional in Five Children and It), each chapter is like a short story about the group of siblings who each make a wish that the Psammead (a sand fairy) grants, with often chaotic and hilarious results. Although short stories will never be my favourite, it worked quite well in this sense because each chapter was a new day, but of course I still preferred some to others. I connected with E. Nesbit's writing straight away – this is the first book by her that I've read – and I found the dialogue witty and charming. Be careful what you wish for! I'm looking forward to also reading The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure Seekers .
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Reading Progress
October 5, 2014
– Shelved
October 5, 2014
– Shelved as:
wishlist
December 29, 2014
– Shelved as:
childrens-fiction
December 29, 2014
– Shelved as:
read-in-my-twenties
December 29, 2014
– Shelved as:
classics
December 30, 2014
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16.0%
December 31, 2014
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Started Reading
December 31, 2014
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20.0%
"I'm enjoying this a lot! Wondering what if wish for if I met a Psammead..."
December 31, 2014
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Finished Reading
January 9, 2016
– Shelved as:
classics-challenge
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This, and the other two books in this series, have been some of my favorite book as a child, and are still my favorite books, along with the Moomin books. I think the third book was the best, because I love all things time travel.
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I'll have to check them out at some point? Have you read Five Children on the Western Front?
No, I haven't. Is it any good? Did you like it? I think I looked over the reviews, and it sounded as though it was so totally different that most people didn't.
I recommend Nesbits little known adult book the Red House its a romantic comedy and is really beautiful.
