Edith Nesbit

The children went, and looked once more in the faces of the King and Queen of the Under Folk, but now they did not know those faces, which seemed to them only the faces of some very nice strangers. "I think Reuben's jolly lucky, don't you?" said Mavis. "Yes," said Bernard. "So do I," said Cathay. "I wish Aunt Enid had let me bring the aquarium," said Francis. "Never mind," said Mavis, "it will be something to live for when we come back from the sea, and everything is beastly."

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit. First published in 1899, it tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family.

Once upon a time, there were three bored but imaginative little children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Cathy, left all alone in a boarding school with one nosy maid and an agreeable French governess for the holidays. Having securely wrapped the governess around their collective little fingers, they secure her permission to go into the woods one afternoon. In the woods, they find a castle garden, and in the garden they find a sleeping princess dressed all in pink silk with a magic ring on her finger. The princess is really Mabel, the housekeeper's niece, who is only pretending to be royalty. But when she shows them a secret room filled with treasure where they discover a magical ring, enchantment becomes a reality. Be careful what you wish for. There is invisibility, there are secret passages, there are gods and goddesses and a dinosaurus, there is magic and myth and a whole world of hidden secrets.

Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons - including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her

Volshebnye miry, sozdannye izvestnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsej Edit Nesbit, probuzhdajut voobrazhenie i perenosjat chitatelej v sovershenno druguju realnost. Roman "The Magic City" byl napisan v 1910 godu i eschjo ne vykhodil na russkom jazyke. Mezhdu tem, tvorchestvo Edit Nesbit (1858 - 1924) okazalo bolshoe vlijanie na razvitie detskoj literatury. Prijom, kotoryj ispolzovala Nesbit v svikh knigakh (kogda obychnye ljudi, sovremenniki avtora v povsednevnoj zhizni stalkivajutsja s volshebstvom), vzjali "na vooruzhenie" samye talantlivye pisateli dvadtsatogo veka - Pamela Lindon Trevers (avtor istorij o Meri Poppins), Diana Uinn Dzhons i Dzhoan Rouling. Klajv Stejplz Ljuis, avtor tsikla "Khroniki Narnii", dazhe upominaet geroev Nesbit v romane "Plemjannik charodeja". Edit Nesbit napisala bolee 60 romanov dlja detej. Mnogie iz nikh perevedeny na russkij jazyk. Odnazhdy nochju desjatiletnij Filip, ne vykhodja iz doma, popadaet v volshebnyj gorod, kotoryj on sam i sozdal. No kak emu ubedit mestnykh zhitelej, chto on prishjol s mirom? Kakie dobrye dela i postupki pomogut malchiku obresti druzej i osvobodit gorod ot kovarnoj razrushitelnitsy? Filip vmeste so svoej podrugoj Ljusi projdjot ochen dolgij i slozhnyj put: srazitsja s drakonom, postroit Kovcheg i osvobodit zhitelej Somnolensii ot vlasti Velikogo Lenivtsa. V neverojatnykh prikljuchenijakh junogo geroja soprovozhdajut skazochnye personazhi i samye udivitelnye mificheskie suschestva. Na stranitsakh knigi volshebnyj gorod ozhivaet blagodarja utonchjonnym illjustratsijam molodoj khudozhnitsy Ekateriny Volzhinoj. Dlja mladshego shkolnogo vozrasta. Perevodchik: Ivanov Anton Davidovich, Ustinova Anna VjacheslavovnaKhudozhnik: Volzhina Ekaterina

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace the one from the nursery that was destroyed in an unfortunate fire accident. Through a series of exciting events, the children find an egg in the carpet which cracks into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magical one that will grant them three wishes per day...

The story opens with the description of three little Londoners who enjoy an ordinary, peaceful life in the city with visits to the Zoo and Madame Tussauds. They have a charming, well-appointed home and loving parents. Things take a sudden turn for the worst when Father suddenly leaves after receiving mysterious "bad news." Mother decides equally suddenly to move with the children to the country-side and here begins their adventure with the railways. They befriend a strange Old Gentleman who invariably travels on the 9.15 train from near their home and get drawn into bizarre and dangerous events...

A big estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, who discover it while exploring. The blue lake, the pink marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a setting like a fairy tale. They find in the middle a maze in the rose garden and they find a sleeping fairy princess. The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic. She shows them the treasures of the castle. There is also a magic ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting, but then the children soon discover that the ring has other magical powers.

Edith Nesbit's The Book of Dragons is a classic collection of eight dragon-themed short stories first published in 1911.

Edith Nesbit's The Book of Dragons is a classic collection of eight dragon-themed short stories first published in 1911.