Nine Unlikely Tales
by E. Nesbit
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Original tales and stories from Edith Nesbit to stimulate your imagination with most enigmatic and mysterious creatures including the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa residence, the dreadful automatic nagging machine, the blue mountain, fortunatus, the cockatoucan and many others.Tags
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Really sweet short stories, and while they proclaim to be "unlikely tales", there are also some traditional fairy-tales included - and those happened to be my favourites of the lot. Especially "The Prince, Two Mice, and Some Kitchen-Maids" which was recommended to me by a friend many, many, many years ago, but which I'd forgotten all about, and didn't even know was written by Edith Nesbit until I suddenly heard it here. I'll be telling these to my kids once I get some.
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E. Nesbit (1858-1924) wrote her first highly successful work for children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, in 1899. Her many books for young readers, including The Magic City, Wet Magic, The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Enchanted Castle, gained her a popularity that has lasted for more than a century Peter Glassman is the show more owner of Books of Wonder, the New York City bookstore and publisher specializing in both new and old imaginative books for children show less
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