The Complete Psammead Series (With 100+ Illustrations) (ShandonPress)

E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit, Shandon Press

Summary

This book contains the complete Psammead Trilogy by E.Nesbit + illustrations by Harold R. Millar.

Contents:

Five Children and It
“It” is a Psammead (pronounced “Sammy-ad”), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit – and It grants them a 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.

The Phoenix and the Carpet
It’s startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic wishing carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space – which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant…

The Story of the Amulet
The five children often stumble into marvelous adventures. So it is no surprise when they come across their old friend the Psammead, the wish-granting sand fairy, in the middle of London. “The strongest charm in the world,” it tells them, is in a junk shop, waiting for the children to buy it. So they do. Then they find there’s a catch: it turns out they have bought only half the charm. With the missing half, the charm has the power to give them their heart’s desire. But to find it, they must travel to the past, thousands of years ago. How can four children go back in time?

Available since: 11/21/2016.

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