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  • Five Children and It

  • By: E. Nesbit
  • Narrated by: Lynda Bellingham
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (420 ratings)

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Five Children and It

By: E. Nesbit
Narrated by: Lynda Bellingham
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Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril and the Lamb are on holiday at the White House, a beautiful place on the edge of a hill with a chalk quarry one side and a gravel-pit on the other. Before they have even been there a week, they make an amazing discovery. Digging in the gravel-pit, they find a fairy! The Psammead is brown, furry, fat and shaped like a spider- as well as being very old, and very grumpy. But most importantly, the creature can grant wishes, and the children are soon having the most wonderful adventures...

An abridged reading by Lynda Bellingham of E. Nesbit's classic tale.

©2012 E. Nesbit (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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THIS HAPPENS BEFORE MOTOR CARS

GO TO BED AND TRY AND BE BETTER CHILDREN IN THE MORNING
This is your typical "Be careful what you wish for" type of stories. Each day is like a new story as the children get a new wish from the sand fairy. Kids will enjoy it, as the children get into bad situations, caused by their wishes.

Lamb
The baby is called lamb, cause he is always making Baa sounds.

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Decent

The story was fun but not fantastic and the narrarator had a very scratchy and shrieking voice for all the women

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Great reading of a short, classic tale!

Great reading of a short, classic tale! Wonderful performance by the reader! Highly recommended for all ages

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good family story

kids definitely need to be sitting and listening to this the narrating was somewhat monologue for younger kids.

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amazing 📖

this is an amazing book that is about a sand fairy and three or two children
I hope you like it as much as I did!

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Fun Listen, Good Discussion Starters

The story is both fun & good for discussion starters concerning morality for younger children? Would be a great story to apply classical five common topics of definition, comparison, relationship, circumstance & testimony in order to ask questions to kids.

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Charming

What a charming little story. I remember the movie, but I've never read the book. this was read really well, full of whimsy and childlike enjoyment.

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I liked everything

my 5 year old: "another kid would love it, all of it. the fairy and the children and the parents were good. the fairy did magic for them and made magic tricks, one of the tricks was the fairy made a magical castle. there was nothing really bad... there were some bad things but then they were okay." 😊

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We liked it

Nice, short read aloud for my kids, aged 3, 6, & 9. Enough adventure to keep them interested!

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my veiw

this book is good, has a lot of make belive,and is short, but is awesome!!!

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