Name: Five Children and it (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) (in English)
Price: 13.45 USD
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Author: Edith Nesbit
ISBN: 9781853261244

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Author

Edith Nesbit

Synopsis "Five Children and it (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) (in English)"

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.