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What would you do if you found a fairy that would grant your every wish? The five children in this story do just that, while playing in an old gravel pit during the school holidays. Their 'sand fairy' is not a very conventional sylph: "Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes; 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". But while he is not particularly beautiful or good-tempered, the creature (whose real name is Psammead) does possess the redeeming feature of magically granting any desire - though for some reason the children's wishes always seem to go awry. This results in their being held prisoner by mailed knights, given wings, turned into giants, chased by scalp-seeking Indians and a host of other exciting adventures. It seems the Psammead is deliberately 'tweaking' the children's wishes, but to discover why you will have to read the rest of 'Five Children and It'! The author, Edith Nesbit, was born in London in 1858. Her own childhood was spent mainly in boarding schools, and she said later that she was only really happy during school holidays, when she could play with her brothers. Her writing included romantic novels, plays and poems, but she is best remembered for her children's books, which include the world-famous 'Railway Children' and the 'Psammead' trilogy, both of which are available in Cathedral Children's Classics.
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What would you do if you found a fairy that would grant your every wish? The five children in this story do just that, while playing in an old gravel pit during the school holidays. Their 'sand fairy' is not a very conventional sylph: "Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes; 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". But while he is not particularly beautiful or good-tempered, the creature (whose real name is Psammead) does possess the redeeming feature of magically granting any desire - though for some reason the children's wishes always seem to go awry. This results in their being held prisoner by mailed knights, given wings, turned into giants, chased by scalp-seeking Indians and a host of other exciting adventures. It seems the Psammead is deliberately 'tweaking' the children's wishes, but to discover why you will have to read the rest of 'Five Children and It'! The author, Edith Nesbit, was born in London in 1858. Her own childhood was spent mainly in boarding schools, and she said later that she was only really happy during school holidays, when she could play with her brothers. Her writing included romantic novels, plays and poems, but she is best remembered for her children's books, which include the world-famous 'Railway Children' and the 'Psammead' trilogy, both of which are available in Cathedral Children's Classics.
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