Language: en
Published in: 1904
Subject(s): Novels - Young Readers - Fantasy
Source: http://gutenberg.org
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70.
It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted, and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space-which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant...
The Psammead series by E. Nesbith. In Five Children and It, the Psammead is described as having “eyes [that] were on long horn like a snail’s ey...