A review by sarahbowling6608
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

2.0

I remember really liking The Railway Children so I was excited to read something else by Nesbit. I found the children in this book very petulant and whiny. I also thought they spoke very unkindly to each other. I will note that I listened to this as an audiobook and the narrator made them sound very whiny so maybe I wouldn't have been so bothered by it had I read it with the voices in my head. I did enjoy the storyline of natural consequences for hasty or thoughtless wishes, I just wish (see what I did there lol) that the children weren't so nasty to each other.

CC: magic, very unsupervised children, unkindness, fighting, racist/stereotypical portrayal of "gypsies" and "red Indians"