Gorgeous collectable edition of E. Nesbit's brilliant children's fantasy story. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. A gorgeous new edition. Following the famous Five Children and It , The Phoenix and the Carpet is the story of four children who, having accidentally set fire to their carpet, find themselves with a secondhand one that is magical and contains a strange egg. The magic carpet and the beautiful creature that hatches from the egg are the start of many great adventures.