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Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit
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Title: Five Children and It
Author: E. Nesbit
Illustrator: H.R. Millar
Release Date: December 15, 2005 [EBook #17314]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: The Psammead]
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
BY E. NESBIT
AUTHOR OF "THE TREASURE-SEEKERS," "THE WOULD-BE-GOODS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
[Illustration]
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1905
COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Published October, 1905
TO
JOHN BLAND
My Lamb, you are so very small, You have not learned to read at all; Yet never a printed book withstands The urgence of your dimpled hands. So, though this book is for yourself, Let mother keep it on the shelf Till you can read. O days that pass, That day will come too soon, alas!
NOTE
Parts of this story have appeared in the Strand Magazine under the title of
"THE PSAMMEAD."