Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

More than one wish transports them to the trenches where they become witnesses of the horrors. Cyril has enlisted and is soon followed by Robert. Some of the adventures are more troubling than funny. They are even more mysterious this time because the sand fairy can’t control them. Like in the first book they have many hilarious adventures. The kids take him home and hide him in a sand bath on the attic. He cannot go home, he cannot make any wishes. It’s the beginning of WWI and the sand fairy is stuck in their world. The younger kids were often jealous of their siblings’ adventures with the sand fairy and are overjoyed when they discover the grumpy creature in their gravel pit. There’s a sixth child, the nine year-old Edie. Cyril, Anthea and Robert are in their twenties, Jane is about sixteen, and the youngest, the Lamb, is eleven and not even the youngest anymore. Often with hilarious consequences.īut since then many years have gone by. When the five children were younger, they had many adventures with a furry, snooty creature they discovered in a gravel pit. The sand fairy was able to grant wishes and those wishes, which were always over at sunset, transported them back and forth in time. And I’m aware that the main character of the book “It” – or Psammead -, the sand fairy, is Nesbit’s creation and not Saunders’, nonetheless her book offers many new elements. I’m not always keen on sequels of classics, but since I haven’t read Nesbit’s tale yet, I couldn’t compare. Nesbit’s famous children’s book Five Children and It. I’m still surprised how much I loved this book. Five Children on the Western Front is a delightful story inspired by E.

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders