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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.
Oct 15, 2004 · A fantasy adventure film based on E. Nesbit's classic novel, about five children who befriend a sand fairy during World War I. See the cast, crew, reviews, trivia, goofs, and more on IMDb.
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Five Children and It is a 2004 family fantasy-comedy-drama adventure film adaptation of the 1902 novel Five Children and It, which features live action and computer animation.
May 14, 2016 · Five children discover a Psammead in the local sand pit, they find out the Psammead will grant them three wishes.
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- BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY. The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, "Aren't we nearly there?"
- GOLDEN GUINEAS. Anthea woke in the morning from a very real sort of dream, in which she was walking in the Zoological Gardens on a pouring wet day without an umbrella.
- BEING WANTED. The morning after the children had been the possessors of boundless wealth, and had been unable to buy anything really useful or enjoyable with it, except two pairs of cotton gloves, twelve penny buns, an imitation crocodile-skin purse, and a ride in a pony-cart, they awoke without any of the enthusiastic happiness which they had felt on the previous day when they remembered how they had had the luck to find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, and to receive its promise to grant them a new wish every day.
- WINGS. The next day was very wet—too wet to go out, and far too wet to think of disturbing a Sand-fairy so sensitive to water that he still, after thousands of years, felt the pain of once having his left whisker wetted.
Five Children and It. E. Nesbit. 3.86. 26,874 ratings1,490 reviews. The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences. Never out of print since 1902.
A 2004 fantasy film based on E. Nesbit's classic children's novel. The film follows the adventures of five siblings who encounter a magical sand fairy that can grant their wishes.
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