Author: E.Nesbit
Type: Paperback
Read: 29th July - 30th July 2016
Rating: 3/5
Published: 1st December 1996 by Puffin (first published 1902)
The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy or 'psammead' in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences. Never out of print since 1902. The Introduction to this edition examines Nesbit's life and her reading, showing the change in childrens' literature from Victorian times.
I'm torn with this book. I think partly because its old and the other half because the author seemed to go on and on at times that i was just hoping to get it over with. I liked the idea of the chilren recieving wishes althouh some of them were just bonking mad.
It sometimes felt like small little stories mashed together with only the evening and morning linking the chapters together. It was peculiar. But the story was fun, the chilren were just mischievious and sometimes a right pain. Though they were technically left alone by their mother, so you can't really blame them all that much.
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