Fine, and a fun premise, but a little overrated for Nesbit. The plot is episodic and bumpy. The protagonists are rather spoiled, semi-neglected, un-self-aware children who don't experience character growth during the story. The Phoenix is an interesting fellow, but entirely too passive to drive the show through enigmatic magnetism or, apparently, any motivating desires of his own. Both the Phoenix and the Carpet seemed to have shown up solely to entertain a set of mildly bored children. Would ha...

That evening, Mother read to them from a book called The Phoenix and the Carpet, which she had had since she was a little girl. Like all the best children's books, it was written to be read aloud; you immediately knew that Mrs. Nesbit had read it aloud to her own children, and every now and then she had put in a little joke for her husband, who was pretending to do something important but was really listening too. Mrs. Nesbit had a wonderful imagination, and she also had a strong moral sense; so...

I enjoyed this so much more than Five Children and It.

4.5

Inače volim čitati serijale redom, ali kako je prvi dio „Petero djece i Pjesko“ bio nedostupan, a htjela sam vidjeti kakve su ovo dogodovštine s Feniksom i Čarobnim sagom, odlučila sam ipak uzeti drugi dio na čitanje. Malo me bilo strah koliko su povezani, koliko se nadopunjuju nastavci, ali ispalo je da sam drugi dio bez ikakvog problema čitala ne znajući ništa unaprijed. Baš mi je drago zbog toga!

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Did not like this book as much as 'Five Children and It'. I felt the children had better adventures in the first book with the Psammead than they did with the Phoenix or the carpet....I guess they made better wishes in the first book than the second.

I loved this book and the series as a young girl. This book transported me with its imaginative plot and made me want to be one of the lucky children on a magic carpet!

It's one of those timeless children's books that I hope children may still read today. Up there with books like The Famous Five by Enid Blyton and the Trixie Belden series.

One of my all time favourite books as an avid younger reader. 5 magical stars for entertainment, great plot, magic and characters.

Sadly, classism, sexism and racism did dampen my enjoyment of this otherwise fantastic children's book.

While I really enjoyed the writing style of the book, especially the arch little comments on human behaviour, it was hard for me to get past the casual "oh those poor childish savages" racism inherent in books from this era.

I think when the Spawn read this, we'll have a little talk about the racism in books by writers like Nesbit, Blyton and Kipling, and what it says about humanity (and hopefully how we've moved on, at least a little.)

Four children discover a strange egg in their new nursery carpet, and when the egg is accidentally dropped in the fire, it hatches a beautiful Phoenix. The Phoenix reveals that the new carpet is actually a magic carpet that can take them anywhere in the world. Although they have some fun adventures, more often than not, their adventures go awry and their wishes get them into trouble.I always enjoy rereading this favorite children's classic! I've been rereading it since I was a little girl, and e...

"I daresay they're not real cats," said Jane madly, "Perhaps they're only dream-cats.""I'll dream-cat you, my lady," was the brief response of the force."In regards to this book, I'm going to write something so groundbreaking that I would be willing to bet lots and lots of metaphorical pounds on the fact that no one has ever said, written or even thought about this idea when they closed the pages of Ms Nesbit's wonderful book. I wish I had a Phoenix and a magic carpetI'm going to change the worl...