Pheonix and the Carpet

No cover — Edith Nesbit: Pheonix and the Carpet (2017, Penguin Random House)

304 pages

English language

Published March 8, 2017 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:: 978-1-78487-305-9

(1 review)

Five British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.

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ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed The phoenix and the carpet by Edith Nesbit

Enjoyably strange

4 stars

Strange, like Five Children & It. Not sure what I was expecting since all I'd ever heard of Nesbit was as the author of the Railway Children so when I saw these two in a roadside library I picked them up