Five Children and It

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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Narration is fantastic!

She is awesome, I have since learned she has passed away. Rest In Peace. Her range is great, accents are so well done, end the flow and rhythm of her reading makes it very easy to listen to. The story itself id never heard before. It’s ok, prob better for older children 10+ as there are a few old school things such as spanking etc and just the general fact that 5 children wander around often unaccompanied by any mature grown up, and there are things they keep from their guardians etc.
don’t know if I will keep this book for this reason, but it was very well read.

cute

i did love the create way this book was told.nice ending it wasnt scary. just pleasure