Edith Nesbit
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When five siblings - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother, the Lamb - discover a sand-fairy in their gravel pit, they are jolly surprised and a little delighted. Even better, the Psammead is able to grant them wishes, although the magic wears off at the day's end. Unfortunately, all of the wishes the children make go hilariously wrong and they soon learn that their foolish desires are more likely to get them into trouble than get them...
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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.
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It wouldn't be out of line to call this book a great world of pretend. It is actually eight short stories that are clever and magical, as well as frightening at times.For example, a fierce dragon crawls out of the dungeons of a castle and seems to be aiming at eating an entire nearby village. The wild beast frightens a poor blacksmith who has the sense and ability to trick the ferocious animal and save the town and its people.One of the classic tales...
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Three children discover an old country estate during their school holidays. When they're exploring it they come upon a mysterious young girl claiming to be a fairy princess. She shows them the castle's treasure, including a ring that will turn you invisible. But no one is more surprised than she when she slips it on her finger ... and disappears! The ring is indeed magical, and the children waste no time finding out what else it can do.
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When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt to contribute something, however small and unworthy, to the science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of all things pure and...
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Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane are "the sort of people that wonderful things happen to." And the children have yet more adventures ahead of them. Following up on "Five Children and It" and "The Phoenix and the Carpet", they once again meet the wish-granting Psammead fairy. This time, he guides them to an ancient Amulet that will help them find their hearts' desire, but it is only half an amulet, and the search for the other half will have them whizzing...
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First written in 1904, this is one of Edith Nesbit's best-loved children's stories. It it the second story about a group of five children - Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb - who live in London. One day their mother buys a new carpet for the nursery which mysteriously contains a stone egg. When the egg falls into the fire by accident, nobody can possibly imagine what adventures will be unleashed. The egg hatches the Phoenix...
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Edith Nesbit is best known as the author of children's classics, such as The Railway Children. She was also a renowned author of ghost stories and othertales of terror, the macabre and the supernatural. In this collection of spine-chilling narratives, Nesbit presents us with a truly masterful set of tales of love which reaches out beyond the grave, ghosts, eerie incarnations, evil deeds and uncanny happenings. Perfect bedtime listening.... if you...
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Sluchaetsya, v dom prihodyat gore i bednost'. Dlya vzroslyh eto prichina rasstraivat'sya, mnogo rabotat', bespokoit'sya o vlozheniyah i kreditah. A dlya detey - otlichnyy povod otpravit'sya na poisk sokrovishch. Chto i sdelali shestero brat'ev i sestyor iz semeystva Besteybl. Tak oni reshili pomoch' svoemu ovdovevshemu otcu razbogatet'. No stoilo im tol'ko vklyuchit' voobrazhenie, kak srazu nashlos' eshchyo mnozhestvo drugih neskuchnyh sposobov popolnit'...
10) The Marble Child
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Young Earnest befriends another little boy on his family's weekly trips to church. But is he an imaginary friend conjured to amuse during long sermons, or is the little stone cherub something more?
The Marble Child is taken from the second volume of the Victorian Anthologies "Horror" series, featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar...
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First published in 1899, The Story of the Treasure Seekers tells the tale of the Bastable children, Dora, Oswald, Dickie, Noel, Alice, and H.O. (short for Horace Octavius) and their attempts to restore the fallen fortunes of their family. They devise a series of plans to find or make money, varying from digging for treasure to being bandits, from going into business to rescuing rich elderly gentlemen from deadly peril.
Their schemes have varying...
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E. Nesbit's The Mass for the Dead is a haunting tale of love, guilt, and the supernatural - a gothic romance where the boundaries between devotion and damnation blur in the flicker of candlelight.
When Jasper learns that the woman he loves is to marry another man - a wealthy Spaniard named Benoliel - his sleepless night turns into a waking nightmare. In the still hours before dawn, he hears a strange and beautiful music: a funeral mass for the dead....
13) The Wouldbegoods
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Well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior.
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John makes up his mind to marry May Forster, the prettiest young woman in the village. After John asks her to marry him several times, May finally agrees. John says that his love for May is so great that he would come back from the dead if that was what she wanted him to do. Two days before his wedding, John leaves to visit his seriously ill godfather. May begs him not to go because she has a feeling that something bad will happen. John reassures...
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Sluchaetsya, v dom prihodyat gore i bednost'. Dlya vzroslyh eto prichina rasstraivat'sya, mnogo rabotat', bespokoit'sya o vlozheniyah i kreditah. A dlya detey - otlichnyy povod otpravit'sya na poisk sokrovishch. Chto i sdelali shestero brat'ev i sestyor iz semeystva Besteybl. Tak oni reshili pomoch' svoemu ovdovevshemu otcu razbogatet'. No stoilo im tol'ko vklyuchit' voobrazhenie, kak srazu nashlos' eshchyo mnozhestvo drugih neskuchnyh sposobov popolnit'...
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"Her arms rested on a table beside her, and her head on her hands; but her face was turned full forward, and her eyes met those of the spectator bewilderingly."
One day, a man who has recently enherited his aunt's house, discovers a portait of a woman in the attic. He brings it downstairs and becomes so infatuated by the woman it portrays that he prays she will come to life. By some mysterious power she does, and he learns that the two of them have...
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William Shakespeare is arguably the most pivotal and widely read figure in the history of English literature. This comprehensive collection highlights some of the bard's best works, adapted to be more easily read and digestible for children.
Featured within are some of the bard's most famous and compelling works, including:
• The Comedy of Errors
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• The Merchant of Venice
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Tempest
•...
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"What would you have done? Rubbed your eyes and thought you were dreaming? Well, if you had, nothing more would have happened. Nothing ever does when you behave like that."
In 'The Aunt and Amabel' a young girl damages a special flower-bed without meaning to, and as a punishment her aunt sends her to the bedroom with the large wardrobe. When Amabel finds a railway timetable naming a station called 'Bigwardrobeinspareroom' in there she is intrigued....
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Journey to the roots of Narnia. C.S. Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. And the story of Amabel and her journey through a mahogany wardrobe so struck him, that he later created his whimsical masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Discover the tale that inspired the great C.S. Lewis, and journey to a world of fantasy and forgiveness.
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A young man's inheritance includes more than a house when an ebony-framed painting of a beautiful woman starts to exert a strange hold over its new owner. Could this lead to his tragic demise?
The Ebony Frame is a standalone enhanced audio tale from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved...