Who wrote the 1902 children’s story ‘5 Children and It’?
"Five Children and It Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ""Strand Magazine"" under the general title ""The Psammead, or the Gifts"", with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story of the Amulet"" (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Like Nesbit's ""The Railway Children"","
"The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes ""Five Children and It"" (1902) and ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the ""it"" in ""Five Children and It"". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"". Gore Vidal writes,"
"The Phoenix and the Carpet The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. 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: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet"
"Five Childhood Lyrics Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for four vocal parts (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. The five movements are: The first song is based on ""Monday's Child"", a fortune-telling song and nursery rhyme. The text of the second song is ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", a nonsense-poem by Edward Lear published in 1871. The third song is based on a poem, """", by Robert Louis Stevenson. The text for"
"Grandfather and the voice of Phoenix, and Dee Wallace as Mother. The Phoenix and the Carpet The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. 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: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which"
"the plot of ""Half Magic"" (1954) by Edward Eager, an American author of children's books. ""The Return of the Psammead"" (1992) by Helen Cresswell concerns another family of Edwardian children who discover the Psammead. ""Four Children and It"" (2012) by Jacqueline Wilson is a contemporary version of the story in which four children from a modern blended family encounter the Psammead. One of the children has read the original book and wishes to meet Cyril, Anthea, Jane and Robert. In ""Five Children on the Western Front"" (2014) by Kate Saunders, set nine years after the original story, the five children"
"Tracy Beaker, resident of The Dumping Ground."" (Wilson introduced Beaker in 1991 and ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on television ran from 2002 to 2006.) Daughter Caroline believed that ""Winter of the Birds"" (1976) had been her mother's own favourite work. Cresswell once explained, ""I write a title, then set out to find where that particular road will take me ..."", and Caroline recalled, ""Mum never plotted her books, she just wrote."" In 1991 the BBC aired a six-part TV series, ""Five Children And It"", using Cresswell's script adaptation of the 1902 classic by E. Nesbit. Next year Cresswell's print"
"her family rented a cottage from E. Nesbit, the author who wrote ""5 Children and It"", and there Marion discovered and enjoyed Nesbit's collection of books. Richardson was educated at Winchester High School for Girls, Uplands School, and Milham Ford School in Oxford. She trained to be an art teacher at Birmingham Municipal School of Arts and Crafts from 1908-1912 where she studied under Robert Catterson Smith who influenced her future work. During her training she was a pupil teacher at Moseley School of Art, where she also worked as a Junior Assistant Teacher. From 1912 to 1923, Richardson was"
"is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The five children go on many adventures, which eventually wears out their magic carpet. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, ""The Story of the Amulet"" (1906). This middle volume of the trilogy that begins with ""Five Children and It"" and concludes with ""The Story of the Amulet"", and deviates somewhat from the other two in that the Psammead is mentioned only briefly, and in this volume the five children live with both their parents in the family home in London. In"
"Five Little Peppers The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural ""little brown house"". The series begins with the Peppers in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family. ""The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"" tells how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poor, and"
"from the New Testament book of Matthew: ""I was sick, and ye visited me."" Five Little Peppers The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural ""little brown house"". The series begins with the Peppers in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family. ""The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"" tells how the"
"It (novel) It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his 22nd book, and his 18th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an entity that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. ""It"" primarily appears in the form of 'Pennywise the Dancing Clown' to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two periods, and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. ""It"" deals with themes"
"The Five Chinese Brothers The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann. The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, ""Ten Brothers"". Long ago in China, there lived a family with five brothers who resembled each other very closely. They each possessed a special talent: the first one can swallow the sea; the second one had an iron neck that could not be cut by any swords; the third one can stretch his legs; the fourth one can survive"
"The Fifth Child The Fifth Child is a short novel by the British writer Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into several languages. It describes the changes in the happy life of a married couple, Harriet and David Lovatt, as a consequence of the birth of Ben, their fifth child. A sequel, ""Ben, in the World"" (2000) recounts Ben's life after he has left his family. When David Lovatt meets Harriet at an office party, they both immediately fall in love. They both share the same conservative outlooks, which they perceive to be"
"scene in the Catherine Cookson novel (and the 1998 Festival Film and Television motion picture production) ""The Round Tower"". The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above."
"ages. As is Book-It's practice, every word in the production was taken directly from the text of the book. Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war. This was an event in Vonnegut's own life,"
"suffering that this child brings to the whole family. The Fifth Child The Fifth Child is a short novel by the British writer Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into several languages. It describes the changes in the happy life of a married couple, Harriet and David Lovatt, as a consequence of the birth of Ben, their fifth child. A sequel, ""Ben, in the World"" (2000) recounts Ben's life after he has left his family. When David Lovatt meets Harriet at an office party, they both immediately fall in love. They both share"
"The Goat and Her Three Kids ""The Goat and Her Three Kids"" or ""The Goat with Three Kids"" () is an 1875 short story, fable and fairy tale by Romanian author Ion Creangă. Figuratively illustrating for the notions of motherly love and childish disobedience, it recounts how a family of goats is ravaged by the Big Bad Wolf, allowed inside the secured home by the oldest, most ill-behaved and least prudent of the kids. The only one of the children to survive is the youngest and most obedient, who then helps his mother plan her revenge on the predator, leading"
"and the phoenix. Jane – the fourth child in the family. Her nickname is Pussy. She is a stereotypical representation of a nineteenth-century 'girl' child – afraid, needs male protection, and innocent. Jane is also the one who persuades the burglar to milk the cow instead of rob the house. Lamb/Hilary – the baby and youngest of the children. His name is given in the book (""Five Children and It""). His nickname is Lamb. He is curious and reliant on others. Lamb also takes on the role of childhood innocence. His solo adventure on the carpet is one of the"
"... As you finish this story you can almost hear the children say: 'That is a good book!'."" Then There Were Five Then There Were Five is a children's novel written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, published by Farrar & Rineheart in 1944. It is the third of four books in the Melendy family series which Enright inaugurated in 1941. Continuing life at the ""four-story mistake"" country house during World War II, the four children have adventures that include a neighbor boy who finally joins the family. The four Melendy children live with their father, a widowed professor of economics,"
"The Famous Five (novel series) The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, ""Five on a Treasure Island"", was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina (George) – and their dog Timmy. The stories take place in the children's school holidays after they have returned from their respective boarding schools. Each time they meet they get caught up in an adventure, often involving criminals or lost treasure. Sometimes the scene is set close to George's family"
"Then There Were Five Then There Were Five is a children's novel written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, published by Farrar & Rineheart in 1944. It is the third of four books in the Melendy family series which Enright inaugurated in 1941. Continuing life at the ""four-story mistake"" country house during World War II, the four children have adventures that include a neighbor boy who finally joins the family. The four Melendy children live with their father, a widowed professor of economics, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in an old house in the countryside of New York. Their Father has"
"The Children's Story ""The Children's Story"" is a 4,300-word novelette by James Clavell. It first appeared in ""Reader's Digest"" (June 1964 issue) and was printed in book form in 1981. It was adapted by Clavell himself into a thirty minute short film for television which aired on Mobil Showcase. The story takes place in an unnamed school classroom in the United States, in the aftermath of a war between the US and an unnamed country. It is implied that America has been defeated and occupied. The story opens with the previous teacher leaving the classroom, having been removed from her"
"(and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his ""Just So Stories"" (1902), in which a poem, accompanying the tale of ""The Elephant's Child"", opens with: By 1917, the ""Five Ws"" were being taught in high-school journalism classes, and by 1940, the tendency of journalists to address all of the ""Five Ws"" within the lead paragraph of an article was being characterized as old-fashioned and fallacious: Starting in the 2000s, the Five W's were sometimes misattributed to Kipling, especially in the management and quality literature, and contrasted with the 5 Whys. In each of English and Latin, most of"
"Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is a 1939 American black-and-white children's comedy drama film, directed by Charles Barton, produced by Jack Fier and based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Sidney. Starring Edith Fellows, Charles Peck, Tommy Bond, Jimmy Leake and Dorothy Anne Seese, it is the first of four Five Little Peppers films. Mrs. Pepper and her 5 children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie are a poor but happy family. Mrs. Pepper's husband, John Pepper (a mine engineer) died when the copper mine he half owned"
"News for You"". The BBC children's series ""Belfry Witches"" was based on her series of children's books about two mischief-making witches. Saunders won the annual Costa Children's Book Award for ""Five Children on the Western Front"" (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that E. Nesbit inaugurated in 1902 with ""Five Children and It"". She was also a contributor to the authorised Winnie-the-Pooh sequel, ""The Best Bear in All the World"". She has written many novels, such as ""Wild Young Bohemians"", and also co-wrote ""Catholics and Sex"" (1992) with Peter Stanford, who was then editor of the ""Catholic Herald."""
"explains the ""spots, stripes, and bumps"" that had attracted Kipling's attention in his children's stories. A reviewer in ""BioScience"" suggested that ""Kipling would be riveted."" Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told ""just so"" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The"
"The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as an approaching army about to enter through a ""sudden rush"" and a ""sudden raid"" via"
"and Duncan Preston. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2004 and was theatrically released on 15 October 2004. The digital puppetry and CGI animation for Psammead was created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. ""Five Children and It"" grossed £1,519,049 worldwide. ""Five Children and It"" was released on DVD on 5 July 2005. The film begins with five children (Robert, Cyril, Jane, Anthea and The Lamb), whose father has gone to fight in World War I. Consequently, the children must meanwhile stay at their aunt and eccentric uncle's house with his unpleasant son, Horace. While"
"Missing Scientist Game"" (1988) was based on this novel. Five Have a Wonderful Time Five Have A Wonderful Time (published in 1952) is a popular children's book written by Enid Blyton. It is the eleventh novel in the Famous Five series of books. George has caught a cold due to swimming in the sea in April and, as such, is unable to join Julian, Dick, and Anne on their planned caravan trip. The other children have already set up their caravans on a hill opposite Faynights Castle. George is on the mend from her cold, so she writes a postcard"
"which became a bestseller. He also wrote the poem ""Greatheart"". He used the pseudonym Julian Ross for journalism. In February 1892 Robert Barr and Dunkerley founded ""The Idler"", a monthly ""general interest magazine, one of the first to appear following the enthusiastic reception of ""The Strand"", but not a slavish imitation"". Barr and Dunkerley/Oxenham both contributed as writers. The editors were Barr and Jerome K. Jerome initially. Dunkerley had two sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest, and eldest child, Elsie Jeanette, became well known as a children's writer, particularly through her Abbey Series of girls' school stories. Another"
"of her doctoral thesis. He suggested collaboration in a publication about astronomy but they did not pursue this. They had six children within nine years. In addition to her career as a pioneering woman in what was then a discipline with significant barriers to entry, she completed all the requirements for a medical degree except the internship. She also learned six languages and taught each of her children a musical instrument. In addition, she published two books for children (""Bimbo:A Little Real Story for Jill and Molly"" (1905) and ""Bimbo and the Frogs: Another Real Story"" (1907)). The former was"
"whenever I mention her"", ""A woman I shudder to think of"". In 1805 the Godwins set up a shop and publishing house called the Juvenile Library, significant in the history of children's literature. Through this, Godwin wrote children's primers on Biblical and classical history, and using the pseudonym ""Edward Baldwin"", he wrote a variety of books for children, including a version of Jack and the Beanstalk, and a biography of the Irish artist William Mulready, who illustrated works for them. They kept alive family ties, publishing the first book by Margaret King (then Lady Mount Cashell), who had been a"