Edith Nesbit eBooks

The Railway Children. E-book. Formato EPUB Edith Nesbit   -  E-Bookarama, 2024  - 

Edith Nesbit´s "The Railway Children" is one of the best-loved family stories of all the classics and it is a perfect demonstration of why a safety net is so important. "The Railway Children" is a straightforward narrative of what happens when a family is disrupted by the absence of one of its members, and Nesbit uses the disruption to examine the responsibilities that people have to one another and themselves within the English class structure. The book conveys the basic sense that people and the world are largely good; although the children’s father has been wrongfully imprisoned, justice does prevail in the end.When Roberta, Peter and Phyillis’s father is arrested their life is turned upside down. The children move to the country and the railway that runs nearby becomes their greatest source of adventure. One day, they come up with a brilliant plan to make use of the friends they’ve made through the train to prove their father’s innocence and bring him back safely. Will it work?

The Book of Dragons. E-book. Formato EPUB Edith Nesbit   -  E-Bookarama, 2025  - 

Originally published in 1900, "The Book of Dragons" is a series of eight short stories written by the master of the craft Edith Nesbit for The Strand magazine.Nesbit pulls off a virtuoso performance in imagining an unheard-of variety of dragons, princesses, silly children, and other magical creatures. Some of the legendary monsters are funny and mischievous, others are downright frightening, and a number of them are wild and unpredictable. There's a dragon made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, a scaly creature that carries off the largest elephant in a zoo, and even a dragon whose gentle purring comforts a tiny tot.And who challenges these amazing creatures? Why, daring heroes, of course, as well as a wicked prince, and even an entire soccer team — which, unfortunately, meets its fate with a fire-breathing brute that flies out of the pages of an enchanted book.

Five Children and It. E-book. Formato EPUB Edith Nesbit   -  E-Bookarama, 2023  - 

"Five Children and It" (first book in the Psammead Trilogy) is a classic of children's literature written by Edith Nesbit in 1902. Edith Nesbit was inspired by her own five children to write this enchanting novel skillfully told, and its warm and funny portrayal of a magical childhood has ensured its presence in print ever since.Four children -- Robert, Anthea, Jane, and Cyril (the fifth is their infant brother known as Lamb) -- are playing at a sand pit when they stumble on a Psammead: an ancient sand fairy that will grant a wish a day, which lasts only as long as the sun is visible. Over the succeeding days, the kids learn how many ways that wishes can backfire on them -- they wish for money they can't get anyone to accept, beauty that makes them unrecognizable to their family and servants, wings that leave them stranded on a rooftop, a castle under very real siege by a knightly army -- and how to choose well and avoid having to lie.