Look insideScholastic Classics: Five Children and It
Do you think you’d be bored if you moved to the back of beyond? Not if you met a magical sand-fairy! The five children in this story have just moved from the bright lights of London to the quiet countryside. At first, it’s all a bit yawnsome. Then one day, playing in the gravel-pit, they dig up a grumpy sand-fairy: the Psammead. It can’t possibly be real. But it is. And it has the power to grant wishes…
- A truly classic story of magic, adventure and family
- A sheer delight to read: pure escapism in book form
- E. Nesbit is most famous for The Railway Children
- A vivid portrait of children’s lives in the early 1900s