

The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magical one that will grant them three wishes per day.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Through a series of exciting events, the children find an egg in the carpet which cracks into a talking Phoenix. The phoenix hatches from the egg and becomes their guide and friend as they go on various adventures with the carpet.


Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace the one from the nursery that was destroyed in an unfortunate fire accident. really liked it it tells the story of four siblings who find a magic carpet and a phoenix egg in their nursery. Out comes a flame-colored bird, the Phoenix, who, though a bit conceited, proves very helpful indeed. They encounter a phoenix wrapped in a magic carpet, and thus begins a series of adventures: Captivating, extraordinary, and fun, even if some of them go horribly wrong. In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. The Phoenix and the Carpet is the sequel to Five Children and It and continues the adventures of Robert, Cyril, Anthea, Jane, and their baby brother, Lamb. The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Millar Buy Now: Buy direct from Virago Amazon Blackwells Foyles See All Hive Waterstones WHSmith Wordery Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349009421 Price: £7. LibriVox recording of The Phoenix and the Carpet, by Edith Nesbit.
