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ginamarie123 's review for:
Five Children and It
by E. Nesbit
The kids and I enjoyed this.
My favorite quotes:
“But children will believe almost anything, and grown ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun as it is, and the earth knows its place and lies as still as a mouse. Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so, you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others has been a week in the country they had found a fairy.”
“ Why, don’t you see, if you told grown-ups, I should have no peace in my life. They’d get a hold of me, and they wouldn’t wish silly things like you do, but real Earnest things, and the scientific people would hit on some way of making things last after sunset, as likely as not. And they’d ask for a graduated, income tax, and old age pensions and manhood suffrage, and free secondary education, and other things like that, and get them, and keep them, and the whole world would be turned topsy-turvy.”
My favorite quotes:
“But children will believe almost anything, and grown ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun as it is, and the earth knows its place and lies as still as a mouse. Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so, you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others has been a week in the country they had found a fairy.”
“ Why, don’t you see, if you told grown-ups, I should have no peace in my life. They’d get a hold of me, and they wouldn’t wish silly things like you do, but real Earnest things, and the scientific people would hit on some way of making things last after sunset, as likely as not. And they’d ask for a graduated, income tax, and old age pensions and manhood suffrage, and free secondary education, and other things like that, and get them, and keep them, and the whole world would be turned topsy-turvy.”