While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: ?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; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkey?s.? The Psammead is magical and, every day, the ancient and irritable creature grants each of them a wish that lasts until sunset. Soon, though, they find their wishes never seem to turn out right and often have unexpected?and humorous?consequences. But when an accidental wish goes terribly wrong, the children learn that magic, like life, can be as complicated as it is exciting.

First time in Penguin Classics
Soon to be a feature film starring Kenneth Branagh with Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead
Contains an enchanting introduction by children's literature scholar Gillian Avery about the complex and unconventional Nesbit
Includes all of the original illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes

240 pages

メディア	書籍 Paperback Book (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み	2004年12月28日
ISBN13	9780143039150
出版社	Penguin Publishing Group
ページ数	240
寸法	128 × 196 × 16 mm · 185 g
言語	英語
イラストレーター	Nesbit, E.