After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first appears...
The first in E.Nesbit's "The Psammead" trilogy, published in the Strand Magazine from 1902.
