THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET

The sequel to Five Children and It follows the wondrous adventures of Robert Jane Cyril Anthea and The Lamb as they discover a clever phoenix and a magic carpet. The children find an egg in the carpet which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children are on a fantastic ride with the hopelessly vain but good-hearted phoenix and his flying carpet. They travel to a French castle to a tropical island foil a burglar arrange a marriage change people's disposition and have to figure out how to get 199 Persian cats 398 muskrats a cow and a policeman out of their house. Their charming adventures not only entertain but teach them and the reader a few gentle lessons. The Phoenix and the Carpet is a wonderful book for the young and the young at heart. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy The Story of the Amulet