From the publisher:
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a 1904 fantasy children's novel by E. Nesbit. The second in a trilogy of novels beginning with Five Children and It (1902), it follows the escapades of the same five children: Anthea, Cyril, Robert, Jane and the "Lamb". In this story, the children receive a new carpet from their mother to replace one destroyed in a fire. The children discover an egg inside it, which eventually hatches into a wish-granting phoenix that enables the children to go on many fantastical adventures.
