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An Awfully Big Adventure - E Nesbit

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Series about the lives and work of six great figures in children's literature looks at Edith Nesbit, the first modern children's author and creator of The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children. In a genre previously dominated by adult voices, Nesbit's stories broke the mould of Victorian sentimentality and were written from the perspective of a child, changing the path of children's literature for ever.