Five Children and It

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 12/05/1993
ISBN: 9781853261244
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 23773 / Five Children and It (Unabridged)
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8