Penguin Select Classics: Five Children and It: (Original Unabridged Children's Classic with French Flaps)

‘For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But on the other hand if you are in trouble there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.’When five siblings - Cyril Anthea Robert Jane and their baby brother the Lamb – move to London with their parents an extreme boredom threatens to take over them. Surprisingly they discover a sand-fairy in their gravel pit.The fairy grants them a wish a day which wears off at the day’s end. In an hilarious adventure all the wishes the children make go ironically wrong.They wish first for beauty which causes a problem as no one at home recognises them and they are simply admired but not fed. Each time they land in a difficult mess they must find creative ways to make it better.In this brave creative and endearing adventure will the children learn that desires are more likely to get them in trouble than get what they want?