The last thing Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother expect to find while digging in the sand is a Psammead—an ancient Sand-fairy! Having a Sand-fairy for a pet means having one wish granted each day. But the fivesome doesn’t realize all of the trouble that wishes can cause.

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.

ONE BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY

TWO GOLDEN GUINEAS

THREE BEING WAVTED

FOUR WINGS

FIVE No WINGS

SIX A CASTLE AND No DINNER

SEVEN A SIEGE AND BED

EIGHT BIGGER THAN THE BAKER"S BoY

NINE GROWN UP

TEN SCALPS

ELEVEN THE LAST WISH