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, ff in the mood. grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each granted wish 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.

BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY

GOLDEN GUINEAS

BEING WAVTED

WINGS

No WINGS

A CASTLE AND No DINNER

A SIEGE AND BED

BIGGER THAN THE BAKER"S BoY

GROWN UP

SCALPS

THE LAST WISH