This book’s author, E. Nesbit, has written other stories
including ‘The Railway Children’, ‘The Enchanted Castle’ and ‘The Phoenix & the Carpet’. This is her most well-loved, well-known and best-selling book. She was born in London in the year of 1858, which is about 150 years ago now. The illustrator was H. R. Millar; here is a bit about him: After studying art for a while, he began illustrating for magazines in Birmingham. Soon, he was invited to London by the editor of the Graphic, and worked for many periodicals, including the English
Illustrated Magazine, Punch, and Good Words, and being a frequent artist on the Strand Magazine, where amid other work and he illustrated fiction by E. Nesbit. This
book is very famous. It is about five
Children called Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril and baby Hilary, or called by everyone – Lamb. The find a sand-fairy, which is the ‘It’.
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