Screenplay: E. Nesbit

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Cast Dinah Sheridan · Bernard Cribbins · William Mervyn · Iain Cuthbertson

Plot The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Victorian London. One night the three children see their father usher two strangers into his study. After an argument...

Direction John Stephenson

Cast Freddie Highmore · Kenneth Branagh · Zoe Wanamaker · Alex Jennings

Plot 'It' is a Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them a wish a...

Direction Vera Larina

Cast Jennifer Mallard · Pat Cohen · David Rivers · Warren Hearnden

Plot A group of children discovers a mysterious creature in the local sand pit who agrees to grant them one wish each day.

Direction Dorothea Brooking

Cast Jean Anderson · Marian Chapman · Michael Croudson · Carole Lorimer

Plot TV Series (1951). 2 seasons. 12 episodes. First television series adaptation of the novel by E. Nesbit.

Direction Julia Smith

Cast Jenny Agutter · Gillian Bailey · Ann Castle · Gordon Gostelow

Plot TV miniseries 7 episodes. Television adaptation from E. Nesbit's family novel.

Direction Clive Doig

Cast Jane Forster · Max Harris · Tamzin Neville · Gary Russell

Plot Four children discover a strange egg hidden in an old carpet from which hatches a talking phoenix. Further adventures are had when the carpet turns out to be magic.

Direction Zoran Perisic

Cast Peter Ustinov · Dee Wallace · Timothy Hegeman · Laura Kamrath

Plot Stuck in their late Grandfather's (Sir Peter Ustinov's) country cottage with no television, Anthea (Laura Kamrath), Robert (Nick Klein), and Chris (Timothy Hegeman) are resigned to a boring week until...

Direction Michael Kerrigan

Cast Miriam Margolyes · Ivan Berry · Lesley Dunlop · Ben Simpson

Plot Four young children hope for anything to happen and, when they become owners of the Phoenix, their adventure begins.

Direction Dorothea Brooking

Cast Candida Beveridge · Georgia Slowe · Simon Sheard · Marcus Scott-Barrett

Plot Gerald, James and Kathleen discover a garden in which is hidden a Princess and a magic ring. Although the Princess is not quite who she says she is the ring...

Direction Roger Singleton-Turner

Cast Jeremy Dimmick · Lucinda Edmonds · Simon Hill · Pauline Quirke

Plot E. Nesbit, adapted for television in six parts by Julia Jones. 'This is the story of how we looked for treasure. We are the Bastables, and there are six of...

Direction Juliet May

Cast Camilla Power · Felicity Jones · Kristopher Milnes · Ben Simpson

Plot Widower Richard Bastable faces financial ruin if he cannot complete his new invention, a refrigeration machine.

Direction Dorothea Brooking

Cast Wilfred Downing · Ernest Downing · Anthony Lang · Caroline Denzil

Plot This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure... When their mother dies and their fathers business partner runs off with most of their money, the six...

Direction Catherine Morshead

Cast Jack Blumenau · Clare Thomas · Jemima Rooper · Jenny Agutter

Plot The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper class home in London, in the early twentieth century. Roberta, Phyllis and Peter are the three children of a wonderful mother and...

Direction Marilyn Fox

Cast Toby Ufindell-Phillips · Laura Clarke · Leonard Kirby · Vicci Avery

Plot Four children encounter the magic powers of Psammead, the sand fairy.