Magic turns up in the most unexpected places in E. Nesbit’s madcap fairy tales—and so do dragons: One flies out of the pages of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team…. Two children try to wake St. George when a plague of dragons descends on modern England…. Wicked Prince Tiresome sets forth to hunt a fiery dragon with a pack of trained hippopotamuses….One hundred years after its first publication, this collection of 8 of Nesbit’s most delightful fantasy stories returns and is still every bit as fun as when it was first published. Its original 16 black-and-white illustrations are also included in this must-have for all Nesbit fans. Author Biography: E. Nesbit (1858–1924) was one of the pioneers of the fantasy genre for children, and the popularity of her classic novels, such as The Railway Children and The Enchanted Castle, has lasted a century.