Thursday 15 August 2013

Five Children And Who

Today’s Google Doodle is for the birthday of children’s author Edith Nesbit.

(Although somebody really should tell them that 1858 wasn’t 89 years ago.)
(EDIT: someone has.)

Best known for The Railway Children, she also wrote updated fairytales, Shakespeare adaptations, horror stories, and a series of what would today be called YA urban fantasy, adapted by the BBC, about then-modern kids meeting a strange and mystical being who grants their wishes unreliably and takes them on adventures including trips back in time...

Most stealable title: Thirteen Ways Home.

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