by Edith Nesbit, Diane Mowat · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194790604
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«Five Children and It» is the adaptation of the fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit and Diane Mowat, published by Oxford University Press in paperback, in English.
Five siblings find in a gravel pit a Psammead, an ancient sand fairy of grumpy character who grants one wish a day. The children make their wishes without thinking and soon discover that each wish brings unforeseen problems, and that magic turns their days into a succession of adventures and scrapes.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 2, with a vocabulary of 700 words and a word count of 5,945 words, designed for level A2/B1 of the CEFR.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language, especially young readers looking for an adapted fantasy story.
Edith Nesbit was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
