五个孩子和凤凰与魔毯 (The Phoenix And The Carpet)

《五个孩子和凤凰与魔毯》讲述的是儿童室新换了一条地毯，孩子们怎么也没想到从地毯里面卷着的一个奇怪的蛋里竟然孵出了一只凤凰，这只凤凰又告诉他们，那条地毯也根本不是一条普通的地毯，而是一条能实现愿望的会飞的魔毯。不过，谁要是以为，这两件稀奇的宝贝一定会给孩子们带来什么天大的好事，那他可就想错了。不知是孩子们许的愿有问题，还是魔毯有什么问题，每次许愿带来的结果总是出人意料而稀奇古怪。而聪明却又自负的凤凰，也让孩子们吃了不少苦头......在这部作品中，伊迪斯·内斯比特试图尝试这样一个现实，如果把本来具有惊异魔力的非现实世界的人物，东西移动到我们的现实世界中来，会有怎样的变化？这部作品的真正意义在于溅落到现实中的那个怪物本身，除掉一点儿自尊心，它的可怕似乎全淹没在沙子里了。正是因为有了伊迪斯·内斯比特的这部《五个孩子和凤凰与魔毯》，才有了我们今天的魔幻儿童文学。(The Phoenix And the Carpet tells a story: the children's room changed a new carpet. The children didn't think that the strange egg in the carpet can hatched a Phoenix. It tells them that the carpet is not a common carpet but can fly and come true other's wish. However, anyone who thinks that, these two curious goods will bring the children what great things, are wrong. Either the wishes have problems or the carpet has problems, every time the result is always strange and eccentric and beyond all expectations. The clever but arrogant Phoenix, also lets the children have a lot of suffering...... In this work, Edith Nesbit tried to attempt such a reality: if characters with amazing powers in the non-real world are moved to our real world, what will change? The true meaning of this work is the monster in the reality itself, after getting rid of a bit of pride; it seems terrible full submerged in the sand. It is because of the Edith Nesbit's The Phoenix And the Carpet, we have today's fantasy children literature.)