Five Children and It
Sintesi dell'editore
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.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Mel
- 15/08/2017
The only problem is that it's not longer!
I had forgotten I had an Audilble membership, so I was using up the credits before cancelling my membership. I chose Five Children and It randomly for the last credit.
I put this book on during a 2-hour drive. Unfortunately, I spent most of the last hour of the drive, after this story finished, listening to "Have you got the next one yet? Can we listen to the next one? Mu-um, where's the next sand fairy story?" The only way I avoided the same questions on the way home was by re-playing this story. I think it's safe to say that my 5 year old liked it!
So I've now re-activated my membership and will be purchasing The Phoenix and the Carpet.
5 people found this helpful
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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Joe Spring
- 03/09/2019
Abridged version.
Beautifully reaf but so disappointed to find out on listening that it is an abridged version. Should be clearly marked so as not to waste time or money if that's not what you are looking for.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Peter Schutte
- 19/05/2018
Loved this story
My kids (ages 7-2) and I loved this story! It has adventure and some great life lessons. The more we listen to it, the more we laugh.
3 people found this helpful
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Omki
- 08/11/2017
Oh Childhood
this book was read to me as a kid and it's still just as fun now as it was then.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- jenn
- 12/08/2017
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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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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- A. Rabe
- 01/08/2017
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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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 14/08/2017
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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- april scoty
- 03/08/2017
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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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Janine M. Martin
- 23/09/2020
Racist tropes
White children in redface. Imaginary “savage” Indians. I was really disturbed to overhear what my child was listening to in this production. There’s a lot of good children’s lit out there that doesn’t rely on old racist tropes. This isn’t it.
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Generale3 out of 5 stars
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- Alice
- 06/09/2020
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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- Claire Elliott
- 20/07/2020
Beautiful Story & beautifully read
I love this story! And to have it read to you by Lynda is just lovely. Brings me right back to my childhood.
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- B. Davison
- 25/02/2020
Very bad value
when searching for titles from E Nesbit I was offered this for one credit. having bought it I found out the whole trilogy is only one credit, that's not fair. Lucent book, beautifully read, but go straight to the psamead trilogy instead.