The Phoenix And The Carpet Book Summary

The phoenix and the carpet is a fantasy novel for children written by e.

The phoenix and the carpet book summary.

Five children discover a mysterious egg in their new nursery carpet an egg which hatches into a magical talking phoenix. The phoenix and the carpet book summary and study guide. Four children discover a strange egg hidden in an old carpet from which hatches a talking phoenix. From robert anthea jane and cyril s new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent resourceful and ingenious phoenix who explains that the carpet is possessed of magic qualities.

Edith nesbit booklist edith nesbit message board. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in. The egg when their old carpet is destroyed by their fireworks the siblings get a new nursery carpet and discover a mysterious egg wrapped within it. Nesbit and first published in 1904.

It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with five children and it 1902 and follows the adventures of the same five children. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of the phoenix and the carpet. That evening mother read to them from a book called the phoenix and the carpet which she had had since she was a little girl like all the best children s books it was written to be read aloud. Robert accidentally rolls the egg into the fire and out hatches the phoenix who tells the tale of the magic carpet.

Nesbit s second fantasy novel and is the sequel to five children and it. Looking for the plot summary of the phoenix and the carpet. The phoenix and the carpet summary and study guide are also available on the mobile version of the website. The phoenix and the carpet is e.

You immediately knew that mrs. Cyril anthea robert jane and the lamb. Nesbit had read it aloud to her own children and every now and then she had put in a little joke for her husband who was pretending to do something important but was. Further adventures are had when the carpet turns out to be magic.

With jane forster max harris tamzin neville gary russell.