Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author
E. Nesbit. It was first published as a book in 1902, having been expanded from a series of stories published in the
Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title
The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and
The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.