A children's book about wishes. Four children -- plus their baby brother -- run through any number of permutations of what can go wrong with wishes after they meet up with a Psammead, or sand fairy. Some of which are more disastrous than others, and some of which need a lot more effort to avoid disaster.
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Five Children and It
A children's book about wishes. Four children -- plus their baby brother -- run through any number of permutations of what can go wrong with wishes after they meet up with a Psammead, or sand fairy. Some of which are more disastrous than others, and some of which need a lot more effort to avoid disaster.
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spring sweet spring
A gray and dreary day, all the scene brownish from dead leaves, dead plants, and bare dirt, but one bird is singing a clear crystalline note, and…
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winding of winter
The sky is clear, clear, clear, not a cloud in it as far as you see -- except for the small white bit -- that's round on both sides but not exactly…
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fall and frost
Spake too soon. Several of the purslanes died in the frost, but others are shoving green sprouts up through the dead and rotten leaves that the frost…
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