# Five Children and It

By E. Nesbit.

"Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit is a children's fantasy novel published in 1902. When five siblings discover a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy called the Psammead in a gravel pit, they're granted one wish per day—but there's a catch. Each wish vanishes at sunset, and every desire goes hilariously and dangerously wrong. From unwanted beauty to unspendable riches, from inconvenient wings to a besieged castle, the children learn that getting what you wish for isn't always what you want. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: H. R. Millar
- Subjects: Siblings -- Fiction; Wishes -- Fiction; Fairies -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Five Children and It (Dramatic Reading)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/9927) by E. Nesbit (5 h, English)
- [Five Children and It (Version 5)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/13491) by E. Nesbit (4 h 52 min, English)

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