The phoenix and the carpet

No cover — Edith Nesbit: The phoenix and the carpet (1982, Puffin)

250 pages

English language

Published March 6, 1982 by Puffin.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-030129-8

(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