FiveChildrenandIt

E. Nesbit FIVE CHILDREN AND IT Introduced by Quentin Blake Illustrations by H. R. Millar PUFFIN Contents Introduction by Quentin Blake 1 Beautiful as the Day 2 Golden Guineas 3 Being Wanted 4 Wings 5 No Wings 6 A Castle and no Dinner 7 A Siege and Bed 8 Bigger Than the Baker’s Boy 9 Grown Up 10 Scalps 11 The Last Wish Read More To John Bland My Lamb, you are so very small, You have not learned to read at all. Yet never a printed book withstands The urgence of your dimpled hands. So, though this book is for yourself, Let mother keep it on the shelf Till you can read. O days that pass, That day will come too soon, alas! It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. Five minutes before, the children had had no more idea than you that there was such a thing as a Sand- fairy in the world, and now they were talking to it as though they had known it all their lives. Introduction by Quentin Blake E. Nesbit was a woman: Edith Nesbit, or Mrs Hubert Bland. A hundred years or so ago, when she was writing (books for adults as well as children), she ......