the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, when all that children wished for was food, the bones of which then became fossils. The five children's first wish is to be "as beautiful as the day". The wish ends at sunset and its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone.

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	27 octobre 2016
ISBN13	9781539779667
Éditeurs	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	148
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 8 mm · 208 g
Langue et grammaire	English

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