Its eyes were on long horns like a snail`s eyes... it had ears like a bat`s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur...and it had hands and feet like a monkey's.'it'was the Psammed,the grumpy sand-fairy that could,if in the mood,grand a wish a day. When the five children bestfriend him they find that each granted wish often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are to difficult to spend, wing let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike.Generations of children have come to love the fantasy and the whimsy of the stories in the classic book from the author of The Railway Children.