# Five Children and It

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- Book: [Five Children and It](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-nesbit/five-children-and-it) ([Five Children and It.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-nesbit/five-children-and-it.md))
- Authors: [Edith Nesbit](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-nesbit)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-915-0
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2004-12-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: “Its eyes were on long horns like a snail’s eyes, and it...