Description: Gorgeous collectable edition of E. Nesbit's brilliant children's fantasy story.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. A gorgeous new edition. Following the famous Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet is the story of four children who, having accidentally set fire to their carpet, find themselves with a secondhand one that is magical and contains a strange egg. The magic carpet and the beautiful creature that hatches from the egg are the start of many great adventures.Brief description: E. Nesbit was an English writer, poet and activist. The author of sixty books, she is known primarily for her children's stories, including The Railway Children, Five Children and It and the Bastable series, as well as her short stories. She has been called the creator of contemporary children's fantasy and influenced many later writers.