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Reviews: FIVE CHILDREN AND IT Your wish for fun is granted
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20050713
Author:JOYCE McMILLAN
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT ***
MACROBERT, STIRLING
EVERY culture has its own stories and legends about the danger of getting what you wish for; but for sheer upbeat ebullience and energy, few of those tales can compete with Edith Nesbit's jolly 1902 children's book, Five Children and It.
In Nesbit's novel, a family of two girls, two boys and a much-put- upon infant known only as The Lamb, come across an ancient little furry sand-spirit while digging in a gravel pit and get into a series of frightful scrapes - sorry, but the Edwardian atmosphere is catching - when they realise that the creature ...
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