This title is an entrancing combination of magic with the everyday trials of childhood. 'It' is a Psammead, an ancient, ugly and irritable sand-fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them one wish a day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing.
- ISBN10 0140367357
- ISBN13 9780140367355
- Publish Date 25 July 1996 (first published 1 January 1900)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 September 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Puffin Classics
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English