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Five Children and It|Edith Nesbit

Overview

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a monkey's.

'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for Red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike.

Generations of children have come to love the fantasy and the whimsy of the stories in the classic book from the author of The Railway Children.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781853261244
  • ISBN-10: 1853261246
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
  • Publish Date: December 1993
  • Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 192
  • Reading Level: Ages 8-11

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