The four children have accumulated a small hoard of fireworks for the night, but they are too impatient to wait until 5 November to light them, so they set off a few samples in the nursery. The story begins shortly before 5 November, celebrated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night, when people build bonfires and set off fireworks. A continuing theme throughout The Phoenix and the Carpet is the element of fire. In the other two volumes, circumstances have forced the children to spend protracted periods away from their home and their father. It deviates from the other two novels insofar as it includes only a brief mention of the Psammead, a magical creature introduced in the first volume, and depicts the five children as living with both of their parents in the family home in London. This is the middle volume of a trilogy that begins with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, The Story of the Amulet (1906). The five children go on many adventures, which eventually wear out their magic carpet. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb.
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E.
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