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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Don't purchase this reprint from Wilder Publications.By J. TessendorfDon't purchase this reprint from Wilder Publications. The punctuation and type-setting is a complete mess. Many punctuation marks are missing, while others are in the wrong place. Some paragraphs don't start where they should, others start where they shouldn't. It would be very frustrating for a child to try to read this reprint, so even at this price, it's not worth it. I'm going to purchase another edition for my girls and recycle this one.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fine reader, Favorite book, CD at last!By MollyM/CAHappiness is... a favorite book, a reader who loves the book and the characters!This is the most famous and perhaps best of E. Nesbit's tales of magic and its potential for getting its users into unexpected, hilarious or frightening or both, situations, and the reader brings the tale to brilliantly to life. Her rendition of the "Ugly-Wuglies," dummies the children make from pillows and umbrellas and other props and inadvertently bring to life, had me laughing out loud and pounding the chair arm with mirth. - yet the reader is never obtrusive and never reads with the exaggerated emphasis so common in readings of children's books.Nesbit with her intricate realizations of magic gone wrong provided one of the wellsprings of modern fantasy writing, from the wistful imitations of Edward Eager (whose stories can also be found in audio versions)to Poul Anderson's "Operation" series collected as Operation Chaos, to Harry Potter. A wonderful gift for Nesbit enthusiasts, and perhaps an even better gift for those who know only the often pale and muddled recent derivatives.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. beware this version....By sfts15this book is printed off the internet. No chapter headings, no illustrations and the font size is small and hard to read. Worse is the bad punctuation. Ugh. Not the Puffin classic version which i thought I was buying. Now am forced to re-order the book....

The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess.The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting.

.com A plot summary makes this story sound ordinary by children's literature standards: the summer adventures of four children who discover an enchanted castle and a magic ring. But Edith Nesbit's adored classic (written in 1907) is so much more than the description suggests. Right from the start, the author plays with the idea of magic, teasing us with a sleeping princess who turns out to be a fake. Elsewhere, the magic is "real" as can be--in fact, though written nearly 100 years ago, The Enchanted Castle prefigures the magical realism of modern novels in the matter-of-fact way it weaves the uncanny into the children's everyday life. And, while few authors are confident enough to parody bad writing, Nesbit does it hilariously (and ever so gently) through one character's tendency to "talk like a book": "'To brush his hair and his clothes... was to our hero but the work of a moment,' said Gerald." Things turn scary when the Ugly Wuglies, fake people made from painted cardboard masks, old clothes, and broomsticks, come to life. But on the whole this book about enchantment--much praised by such luminaries as H.G. Wells and Noel Coward--is, simply, enchanting. (Ages 6 and older) --Richard Farr ''The popular British author's adventures of childhood have always been good read-aloud choices; the audiobook format superbly showcases them.'' --AudioFileAbout the AuthorEDITH NESBIT was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, THE TREASURE SEEKERS, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including FIVE CHILDREN AND IT also became very popular. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN was first published monthly in the LONDON MAGAZINE in 1905, and published as a book in 1906 and has been in print ever since.

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