Catherine Gillespie's Reviews > The Phoenix and the Carpet

If you liked Five Children and It (which of course you did, how could you not?) you will also like the reprise of the same family having adventures in The Phoenix and the Carpet, except this time instead of a Psammead they have adventures with…wait for it…a phoenix and a magic carpet. We really love these siblings now, and had great fun with this book as a bedtime read-aloud. I was wiser in my choice of a more sustainable voice for the Phoenix but the chapters in the book do run long. A few times I got away with reading only a half chapter, but the last night we were all so intent on finding out what happens that I read 68 straight pages and that, my friends, was a lot. Worth it though–this book is great fun and highly recommended.

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