Five Children and It (Nesbit - Wordsworth ed.)

Author: E.  Nesbit

ISBN: 9781853261244

Binding: paperback

Section: Childrens-Classics

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, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail.