Five Children and It

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Five Children and It Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali

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Imagine you found a fairy at the bottom of your garden. And imagine the fairy tells you that your wishes will come true! This is what happens to the five children in this story. However, things don’t happen exactly as expected, and the fairy turns out to be quite a grumpy fairy!

Readers throughout several generations have loved this humorous story by Edith Nesbit.

Along with an appreciation for the funny side of life, it teaches children that not thinking things through properly can get you into trouble, but thinking carefully can usually get you out of it.

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Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit Retold and activities by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali

SYLLABUS Vocabulary areas family, parts of the body, animals, house and garden

Grammar and structures Present simple and continuous Past simple (regular and irregular forms) Had to for obligation Can/Could for ability There was / There were Comparative and superlative adjectives

PICTURE DICTIONARY Five Children and It

ELI Readers Founder and Series Editors Paola Accattoli, Grazia Ancillani, Daniele Garbuglia (Art Director) Editorial Department Leonardo Santarelli

to dig

fur

grumpy

jewels

pot of gold

to pour

ice cream

sunset

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2 CHAPTER 1: The first wish

Five children, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother, the Lamb, lived in a big white house in the countryside. The baby was called the Lamb because the first thing he said was ‘Baaaa!’

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At the time of our story the five children were at home with their nanny, Martha, and the cook.

Father and Mother were away but the children were happy, playing and digging in the sand pit at the bottom of the garden.

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3 One day the children were at the sandpit when

suddenly Anthea said, ‘Oh! Look! What a strange animal!’ It had lots of fur, hands like a monkey and ears like a bat. But the strangest thing about it was its eyes. They were on long horns like a snail’s.

‘I beg your pardon! I’m not a strange animal! I’m a Sand Fairy and I can give you one wish every day.’ The children looked at the Sand Fairy in surprise. ‘Wow!’ said Robert, ‘A wish every day?’ ‘Yes,’ said the Sand Fairy, ‘but the wish goes away at sunset.’

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4 Anthea said, ‘We want to be as

beautiful as the day and night!’

The Sand Fairy’s body began to get bigger and bigger and bigger. Then it said, ‘You’ve got your wish,’ and it disappeared into the sand.

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The children looked at each other. Their hair was as yellow as the sun and their eyes as blue as the sky. They were all very beautiful! The Lamb began to cry.

Lamb!

Don’t cry!

It’s only us!

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5 The children went to

the house for tea but Martha said, ‘Who are you? Why have you got the Lamb?

Poor baby! Give him to me and go away!’ and she closed the door.

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Tell my children it’s time for tea.

The children were very hungry, but what could they do? They went to sit under a tree until the sun went down and the wish went away.

Oh good!

You look like Anthea again!

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6 CHAPTER 2: Pots of gold

The next day, the children ran down to the sand pit. The Sand Fairy was grumpy, but Cyril said, ‘We’ve got a wish. We want pots of gold!’ The Sand Fairy said ‘Humph,’ but its body got bigger and bigger and bigger. Then it said, ‘You’ve got your wish,’ and it disappeared into the sand.

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The children looked at the pots of gold.

‘Wow!’ said Cyril, ‘We can buy lots of things!’

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7 The children walked quickly to the shops... Well,

as quickly as they could. Remember they had to push the Lamb’s pushchair and carry the heavy pots of gold! On the way, they said what they wanted to buy. ‘Some comics,’ said Cyril.

‘Ice creams,’ said Robert. ‘A sweater for the Lamb and a scarf for me,’ said Anthea.

‘A parrot,’ said Jane.

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They went to a shop to buy ice creams.

But, oh dear!

Sorry. That money is no good.

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8 Then they went to the bookshop, and the clothes

shop and the pet shop… But everywhere the shopkeepers said the same.

Sorry. That money is no good.

The children were very hungry and thirsty but what could they do? They went to sit under a tree until the sunset and the wish went away. Then they walked slowly back home.

Sorry. That money is no good.

Sorry. That money is no good.

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