Nesbit had read it aloud to her own children and every now and then she had put in a little joke for her husband who was pretending to do something important but was.
The phoenix and the carpet book summary.
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Nesbit and first published in 1904.
Robert accidentally rolls the egg into the fire and out hatches the phoenix who tells the tale of the magic carpet.
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That evening mother read to them from a book called the phoenix and the carpet which she had had since she was a little girl like all the best children s books it was written to be read aloud.
Further adventures are had when the carpet turns out to be magic.
The phoenix and the carpet is a fantasy novel for children written by e.
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Five children discover a mysterious egg in their new nursery carpet an egg which hatches into a magical talking phoenix.
Four children discover a strange egg hidden in an old carpet from which hatches a talking phoenix.
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It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with five children and it 1902 and follows the adventures of the same five children.
With jane forster max harris tamzin neville gary russell.
Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in.
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Cyril anthea robert jane and the lamb.
In their second adventure published in 1904 robert anthea cyril and jane not to mention baby lamb encounter the legendary magical creature the phoenix as well as a.
Nesbit 1858 1924.
Nesbit s second fantasy novel and is the sequel to five children and it.