Wings and the Child
By E. Nesbit · Running time 3:53:34 · Education
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About this book
"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt to contribute something, however small and unworthy, to the science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of all things pure and fine and beautiful." -- E. Nesbit "This lovely book describes the practicalities of building cities (or forts, secret bases and fairytale palaces
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