Five Children and It

Author: Nesbit, Edith

Classic fiction (Children's/YA)

Published on 5 December 1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Children's Classics' series.

Paperback | 192 pages
197 x 127 x 12 | 132g

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.