Author(s): Edith Nesbit
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 192
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 1999-12-01
Dimensions: 126 x 192 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: Herts, United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
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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.