I listened to the audiobook read by Johanna Ward.

This is another reliable children's fantasy by E. Nesbit, featuring her facetious wit which always surprises me, as if I assume people a hundred years ago didn't have a sense of humour. In places it is horribly dated but it is still an entertaining romp. She does recycle a couple of ideas from Five Children and It though. We get it, magic is a jerk.