The Phoenix and the Carpet

Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Mary Cassatt and John Atkinson Grimshaw. The children find an egg in the nursery carpet, hatch a Phoenix in the fire, and learn that the carpet grants three wishes a day — which is enough for a French tower, a treasure island, a burglary and a cow in a lecture hall. Nesbit wrote the middle book of the Psammead trilogy for a...