Editing Five Children and It (section)

==Sequels==
===By Nesbit===
The book's ending was clearly intended to leave readers in suspense:

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''"They did see it [the Psammead] again, of course, but not in this story. And it was not in a sand-pit either, but in a very, very, very different place. It was in a&nbsp;– But I must say no more."''<ref>Last paragraph of ''Five Children and It''</ref>
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The children reappear in ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'' (1904) and ''[[The Story of the Amulet]]'' (1906). The Psammead is offstage in the first of these sequels (it is simply mentioned by the Phoenix, who visits it three times to ask for a helpful wish when the situation becomes difficult), but it plays a significant role in the second sequel after the children rescue it from a pet shop. 
An omnibus edition of the three books titled ''Five Children'' was published in 1930.<ref name=clute>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nesbit_e |title=Nesbit, E |last=Clute |first=John |author-link=John Clute |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |date=15 October 2021 |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |edition=4th}}</ref> The trilogy is also known as the ''Psammead'' series.<ref name=ang>{{cite book |last=Ang |first=Susan |chapter=Psammead series |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_o6b3/page/581/mode/1up |chapter-url-access=registration |editor-last=Watson |editor-first=Victor |editor-link=Victor Watson (author) |title=The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English |year=2001 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-511-07410-3 |page=581}}</ref>
===By other authors===

''The Return of the Psammead'' (1992) by [[Helen Cresswell]] concerns another family of Edwardian children who encounter the Psammead.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/helen-cresswell/return-of-psammead.htm |title=The Return of the Psammead|work=fantasticfiction.co.uk |access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref>

''[[Four Children and It]]'' (2012) by [[Jacqueline Wilson]] is a contemporary retelling of the story in which four children from a modern [[stepfamily]] encounter the Psammead.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/jacqueline-wilson/four-children-and-it.htm |title=Four Children and It|work=fantasticfiction.co.uk |access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref> One of the children has read the original book and wishes to meet Cyril, Anthea, Jane and Robert.

In ''Five Children on the Western Front'' (2014) by [[Kate Saunders]], set nine years after the original story, the children encounter the horrors of the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/five-children-western-front-kate-saunders-review |first=Linda |last=Buckley-Archer |author-link=Linda Buckley-Archer |title=Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders review – respectful homage packs a punch |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 October 2014 |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>