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Millar countryunited kingdom languageenglish seriespsammead trilogy genrefantasy publishert. The five children robert, anthea, jane, cyril and baby are staying at the white house in the country, while their mother visits their sick grandmother. Written a century ago it is remarkably easy to read, and makes a great introduction to this marvelous authors work, for the family or of anyone who might be interested in the origins of childrens fantasy. It is an exquisite tale about a family of children who discover a very mysterious creature named it. The project gutenberg ebook of five children and it, by e. Five minutes before, the children had had no more idea than you had that there was such a thing as a sandfairy in the world, and now they were talking to it as. But the children s crusade of 1212, as it is now known, has gone down in history as a misguided disaster. The disastrous time tens of thousands of children tried to.
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