Wings and the Child

Author(s)

• E. Nesbit

"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) out of household odds-and-ends. It also goes much further to speak of the importance of developing a child's imagination and other aspects of Education beyond simple instruction. Nesbit may not have realised how multicultural her own Britain was, let alone ours now, or that the wider world might be interested in this book, so please forgive some rather dated phrasing in places." -- Cori Samuel

1. 01 - Part 1, Chapter 1 - Of Understanding
2. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 - New Ways
3. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 - Playthings
4. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 - Imagination
5. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 - Of Taking Root
6. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 - Beauty and Knowledge
7. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 - Of Building and Other Matters
8. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 - The Moral Code
9. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 - Praise and Punishment
10. 10 - Part 1, Chapter 10 - The One Thing Needful
11. 11 - Part 2, Chapter 1 - Romance in Games
12. 12 - Part 2, Chapter 2 - Building Cities
13. 13 - Part 2, Chapter 3 - Bricks -- and Other Things
14. 14 - Part 2, Chapter 4 - The Magic City
15. 15 - Part 2, Chapter 5 - Materials
16. 16 - Part 2, Chapter 6 - Collections
17. 17 - Part 2, Chapter 7 - The Poor Child's City
18. 18 - Part 2, Chapter 8 - The End