E Nesbit

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...

"Fünf Kinder und es" ist ein Kinderroman von englischem Autor E. Nesbit. Es wurde ursprünglich 1902 im Strand Magazine unter dem allgemeinen Titel The Psammead oder The Gifts veröffentlicht. Von April bis Dezember erscheint jeden Monat ein Segment. Die Geschichten wurden dann zu einem Roman erweitert, der im selben Jahr veröffentlicht wurde. Es ist der erste Band einer Trilogie, die The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) und The Story of the Amulet...

Nach einer besonders turbulenten Eskapade werden die Bastable-Kinder für eine Weile aufs Land geschickt. Dort geloben sie feierlich, von nun an nur noch Gutes zu tun. Doch ob sie eine wohltätige Bar am Straßenrand errichten oder eine Schleuse öffnen um einen Kahn, der auf dem Trockenen liegt, zu retten - die Kinder richten in ihrem edlen Bemühen um selbstlose und heldenhafte Taten immer größere Katastrophen an. Erst als sie ihre Versuche entnervt...

The six Bastable children try to restore their family's fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper.

After being particularly unruly, the wayward Bastable children are sent away to the country to improve their behavior.

When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don't be a duffer, there's no such thing. But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just...

As young King Lionel turns the pages of his magical book, a hungry red dragon and other creatures in the illustrations come to life.

Anthea, Cyril, Robert, and Jane meet the Psammead again and set out to find the second half of a magical amulet, leaving Edwardian London to travel to ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis, and more.

A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.

Four children on holiday with their parents in Cornwall, England meet a magical creature with the power to grant wishes. They find out the hard way that the sand fairy's wishes only last until sundown, and they aren't the only family members who would like to be using the magic.