Five Children and It: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Five Children and It, credited to Edith Nesbit, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit. Read by Jenny Lundak. This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children’s wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Five Children and It
• Author credits: Edith Nesbit
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 6:17:38

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• children
• fantasy
• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Beautiful as the Day — 43:05
2. 02 - Golden Guineas — 39:21
3. 03 - Being Wanted — 44:05
4. 04 - Wings — 40:10
5. 05 - No Wings — 21:12
6. 06 - A Castle and No Dinner — 30:49
7. 07 - A Siege and Bed — 24:08
8. 08 - Bigger Than the Baker's Boy — 41:43
9. 09 - Grown Up — 30:00
10. 10 - Scalps — 31:39
11. 11 - The Last Wish — 31:28

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