THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET - Paperback

The sequel to Five Children and It follows the wondrous adventures of Robert, Jane, Cyril, Anthea, and The Lamb as they discover a clever phoenix and a magic carpet. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children are on a fantastic ride with the hopelessly vain but good-hearted phoenix and his flying carpet. They travel to a French castle, to a tropical island, foil a burglar, arrange a marriage, change people's disposition, and have to figure out how to get 199 Persian cats, 398 muskrats, a cow, and a policeman out of their house. Their charming adventures not only entertain but teach them, and the reader, a few gentle lessons." The Phoenix and the Carpet"" is a wonderful book for the young and the young at heart. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, "The Story of the Amulet"

• | Author: E. NESBIT, GRANDMA?S TREASURES
• | Publisher: Lulu.Com
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 178 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0359553443
• | ISBN-13: 9780359553440