Five Children and it (Penguin Popular Classics)

by E.Nesbit (Author), RogerLancelynGreen (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.27

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.27

• Used

  Hardcover
  1979

  $3.27

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $6.76

  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.