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* ItWasHereISwear: The end of "The Caves and the Cockatrice"
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''The Enchanted Castle'', the wishes made by the children expire after a limited time, according to rules they can't quite work out (the first wish lasted 21 hours, the second 14, the third 7, then things seem to get more random). When they're discussing the question with one of the living statues in the castle grounds, he points out that there's nothing stopping them from fixing the duration of the wish when they make it - for example, "I wish that till the dawn I may be a statue of living marble... and that after that time I may be as before."
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''The Enchanted Castle'', ''Literature/TheEnchantedCastle'', the wishes made by the children expire after a limited time, according to rules they can't quite work out (the first wish lasted 21 hours, the second 14, the third 7, then things seem to get more random). When they're discussing the question with one of the living statues in the castle grounds, he points out that there's nothing stopping them from fixing the duration of the wish when they make it - for example, "I wish that till the dawn I may be a statue of living marble... and that after that time I may be as before."
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''The Enchanted Castle'', the wishes made by the children expire after a limited time, according to rules they can't quite work out (the first wish lasted 21 hours, the second 14, the third 7, then things seem to get more random). When they're discussing the question with one of the living statues in the castle grounds, he points out that there's nothing stopping them from fixing the duration of the wish when they make it - for example, "I wish that till the dawn I may be a statue of living marble... and that after that time I may be as before."
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but fortunately being a statue is very comfortable and calming. Kathleen knows everything will turn out fine as all she has to do is wait patiently. Later averted when all the statues come to life, Kathleen among them, and she begins to panic. The animate statues however are still marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but fortunately being a statue is very comfortable and calming. Kathleen knows everything will turn out fine as all she has to do is wait patiently.patiently until the spell wears off. Later averted when all the statues come to life, Kathleen among them, and she begins to panic. The animate statues however are still marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but fortunately being a statue is very comfortable and calming. Kathleen knows everything will turn out fine all she has to do is wait patiently. Later averted when all the statues come to life, Kathleen among them, and she begins to panic. The animate statues however are still marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but fortunately being a statue is very comfortable and calming. Kathleen knows everything will turn out fine as all she has to do is wait patiently. Later averted when all the statues come to life, Kathleen among them, and she begins to panic. The animate statues however are still marble rather than flesh and blood.
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Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was a popular and influential English author of children's adventure stories. Her real name was Edith Bland (née Nesbit).
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Edith Nesbit Bland (née Nesbit) (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was a popular and influential English author of children's adventure stories. Her real stories under the name was Edith Bland (née Nesbit).
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but doesn't seem to mind too much. Later inverted when a whole bunch of statues come to life, Kathleen among them, though they're all animate marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but doesn't seem fortunately being a statue is very comfortable and calming. Kathleen knows everything will turn out fine all she has to mind too much. do is wait patiently. Later inverted averted when a whole bunch of all the statues come to life, Kathleen among them, though they're all and she begins to panic. The animate statues however are still marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* ''Literature/TheStoryOfTheTreasureSeekers'' (and sequels)
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* TheAllConcealingI: Attempted by the narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', not very effectively; the narrator is a child and is only concealing their identity as a game for the reader.
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe in ''The Story of the Treasure-Seekers'': when the kids are alternating chapters of a serial story, Noel names the hero "Noeloninuris". When Oswald gets a chapter, he [[RetCon retcons]] the name to "Osrawalddo".
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe in ''The Story of the Treasure-Seekers'': when the kids are alternating chapters of a serial story, Noel names the hero "Noeloninuris". When Oswald gets a chapter, he [[RetCon retcons]] the name to "Osrawalddo".
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* NarratorAllAlong: PlayedForLaughs in ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers''. The narrator keeps praising one of the main characters as being so clever and brave, and how it isn't his fault when things go wrong. Then the narrator begins forgetting to use the grammatical third person...
* NurseWithGoodIntentions: In ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', the kids decide they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines...but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.
* NurseWithGoodIntentions: In ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', the kids decide they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines...but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.
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* RelativeError: In ''The Wouldbegoods''; lampshaded by the narrator.
-->He might have known it was her brother, because in rotten grown-up books if a girl kisses a man in a shrubbery that is not the man you think she's in love with; it always turns out to be a brother.
* ShoutOut: In ''The Wouldbegoods'' there's a scene in which the children attempt to act out part of ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. It's worth noting that ''The Wouldbegoods'' was published just five years after ''The Jungle Book''.
-->He might have known it was her brother, because in rotten grown-up books if a girl kisses a man in a shrubbery that is not the man you think she's in love with; it always turns out to be a brother.
* ShoutOut: In ''The Wouldbegoods'' there's a scene in which the children attempt to act out part of ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. It's worth noting that ''The Wouldbegoods'' was published just five years after ''The Jungle Book''.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' and its sequels.
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Famous works include ''Literature/TheStoryofTheTreasureSeekers'' ''Literature/TheStoryOfTheTreasureSeekers'' (and sequels), ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels), and ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''.
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Famous works include ''Literature/TheStoryoftheTreasureSeekers'' ''Literature/TheStoryofTheTreasureSeekers'' (and sequels), ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels), and ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''.
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Famous works include ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' ''Literature/TheStoryoftheTreasureSeekers'' (and sequels), ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels), and ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''.
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* TakenForGranite: Kathleen in ''The Enchanted Castle'' is turned into marble after carelessly wishing she was a statue (because statues are cool - temperature-wise, that is). She remains conscious, but doesn't seem to mind too much. Later inverted when a whole bunch of statues come to life, Kathleen among them, though they're all animate marble rather than flesh and blood.
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* ShoutOut: In ''The Wouldbegoods'' there's a scene in which the children attempt to act out part of ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. It's worth noting that ''The Wouldbegoods'' was published just five years after ''The Jungle Book''.
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* RelativeErrorRelativeError: In ''The Wouldbegoods''; lampshaded by the narrator.
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-->He might have known it was her brother, because in rotten grown-up books if a girl kisses a man in a shrubbery that is not the man you think she's in love with; it always turns out to be a brother.
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* GenreSavvy: "Melisande" is set in a fairy tale world where everyone is Genre Savvy. For example, the king and queen deliberately refuse to hold a christening party, knowing what happened to the Literature/SleepingBeauty. When ''all'' the fairies are furious that they weren't invited, and they want to curse the princess, the king points out that traditionally, only one of them can curse the princess or they'll go out "like a candle-flame". He's more or less bluffing, but since the evil fairy Malevola already did the cursing, they decide not to risk it, thank the queen for a lovely afternoon, and leave.
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* MagicPants: Lampshaded in "Melisande"; when fairy magic causes the princess to grow to enormous size, it's mentioned that things could have been quite inconvenient if her clothes hadn't grown with her.
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* RapunzelHair: In the comedic fairy-tale story "Melisande", Princess Melisande is cursed at birth to be bald. When she grows up she is given a magical wish, and at the prompting of her mother requests long, lovely, ''fast-growing'' hair. HilarityEnsues.
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'''E. Nesbit''' (1858-1924) was a popular and influential English author of children's adventure stories. Her real name was Edith Bland (née Nesbit).
Famous works include ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' (and sequels), ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels), and ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''.
E. Nesbit was unusual for her time in writing children's stories set in the real world, instead of in a made-up fantasyland, although many of them (such as ''Five Children and It'') contain fantasy elements.
!!Works by E. Nesbit with their own trope page include:
* ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels)
* ''Literature/{{Melisande}}''
* ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''
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!!Other works by E. Nesbit provide examples of:
* TheAllConcealingI: Attempted by the narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', not very effectively; the narrator is a child and is only concealing their identity as a game for the reader.
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe in ''The Story of the Treasure-Seekers'': when the kids are alternating chapters of a serial story, Noel names the hero "Noeloninuris". When Oswald gets a chapter, he [[RetCon retcons]] the name to "Osrawalddo".
* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: TropeNamer. In "The Book Of Beasts", the hero must summon a creature identified as a hippogriff to save his city from a dragon. The creature that appears is what most people would identify as a pegasus, a winged horse. To be fair, you can't say that a hippogriff isn't a winged horse (or that a pegasus isn't technically part horse, part bird for that matter). It's also possible that Nesbit figured that the word pegasus must only refer to ''the'' Pegasus.
* CuriousAsAMonkey: The protagonist of "The Caves and the Cockatrice":
-->His inquiring mind led him to take clocks to pieces to see what made them go, to take locks off doors to see what made them stick. It was Edmund who cut open the India rubber ball to see what made it bounce, and he never did see, any more than you did when you tried the same experiment.
* GenreSavvy: "Melisande" is set in a fairy tale world where everyone is Genre Savvy. For example, the king and queen deliberately refuse to hold a christening party, knowing what happened to the Literature/SleepingBeauty. When ''all'' the fairies are furious that they weren't invited, and they want to curse the princess, the king points out that traditionally, only one of them can curse the princess or they'll go out "like a candle-flame". He's more or less bluffing, but since the evil fairy Malevola already did the cursing, they decide not to risk it, thank the queen for a lovely afternoon, and leave.
* ItWasHereISwear: The end of "The Caves and the Cockatrice"
* MagicPants: Lampshaded in "Melisande"; when fairy magic causes the princess to grow to enormous size, it's mentioned that things could have been quite inconvenient if her clothes hadn't grown with her.
* MoustacheDePlume, ambiguous initials subtype
* NarratorAllAlong: PlayedForLaughs in ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers''. The narrator keeps praising one of the main characters as being so clever and brave, and how it isn't his fault when things go wrong. Then the narrator begins forgetting to use the grammatical third person...
* NurseWithGoodIntentions: In ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', the kids decide they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines...but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: "The Dragon Tamers" includes a Western style dragon covered nose to tail in rusty armor plating; after a set of adventures (including a fight with a giant), he ends up befriending the blacksmith's son and the other children in the village, after which the armor falls off and the dragon turns out to be the world's first cat.
* RapunzelHair: In the comedic fairy-tale story "Melisande", Princess Melisande is cursed at birth to be bald. When she grows up she is given a magical wish, and at the prompting of her mother requests long, lovely, ''fast-growing'' hair. HilarityEnsues.
* RelativeError
* UnreliableNarrator: The narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' and its sequels.
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Famous works include ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' (and sequels), ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels), and ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''.
E. Nesbit was unusual for her time in writing children's stories set in the real world, instead of in a made-up fantasyland, although many of them (such as ''Five Children and It'') contain fantasy elements.
!!Works by E. Nesbit with their own trope page include:
* ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'' (and sequels)
* ''Literature/{{Melisande}}''
* ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren''
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!!Other works by E. Nesbit provide examples of:
* TheAllConcealingI: Attempted by the narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', not very effectively; the narrator is a child and is only concealing their identity as a game for the reader.
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe in ''The Story of the Treasure-Seekers'': when the kids are alternating chapters of a serial story, Noel names the hero "Noeloninuris". When Oswald gets a chapter, he [[RetCon retcons]] the name to "Osrawalddo".
* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: TropeNamer. In "The Book Of Beasts", the hero must summon a creature identified as a hippogriff to save his city from a dragon. The creature that appears is what most people would identify as a pegasus, a winged horse. To be fair, you can't say that a hippogriff isn't a winged horse (or that a pegasus isn't technically part horse, part bird for that matter). It's also possible that Nesbit figured that the word pegasus must only refer to ''the'' Pegasus.
* CuriousAsAMonkey: The protagonist of "The Caves and the Cockatrice":
-->His inquiring mind led him to take clocks to pieces to see what made them go, to take locks off doors to see what made them stick. It was Edmund who cut open the India rubber ball to see what made it bounce, and he never did see, any more than you did when you tried the same experiment.
* GenreSavvy: "Melisande" is set in a fairy tale world where everyone is Genre Savvy. For example, the king and queen deliberately refuse to hold a christening party, knowing what happened to the Literature/SleepingBeauty. When ''all'' the fairies are furious that they weren't invited, and they want to curse the princess, the king points out that traditionally, only one of them can curse the princess or they'll go out "like a candle-flame". He's more or less bluffing, but since the evil fairy Malevola already did the cursing, they decide not to risk it, thank the queen for a lovely afternoon, and leave.
* ItWasHereISwear: The end of "The Caves and the Cockatrice"
* MagicPants: Lampshaded in "Melisande"; when fairy magic causes the princess to grow to enormous size, it's mentioned that things could have been quite inconvenient if her clothes hadn't grown with her.
* MoustacheDePlume, ambiguous initials subtype
* NarratorAllAlong: PlayedForLaughs in ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers''. The narrator keeps praising one of the main characters as being so clever and brave, and how it isn't his fault when things go wrong. Then the narrator begins forgetting to use the grammatical third person...
* NurseWithGoodIntentions: In ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', the kids decide they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines...but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: "The Dragon Tamers" includes a Western style dragon covered nose to tail in rusty armor plating; after a set of adventures (including a fight with a giant), he ends up befriending the blacksmith's son and the other children in the village, after which the armor falls off and the dragon turns out to be the world's first cat.
* RapunzelHair: In the comedic fairy-tale story "Melisande", Princess Melisande is cursed at birth to be bald. When she grows up she is given a magical wish, and at the prompting of her mother requests long, lovely, ''fast-growing'' hair. HilarityEnsues.
* RelativeError
* UnreliableNarrator: The narrator of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' and its sequels.
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