The Story of the Amulet

By: Nesbit, Edith

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes. It had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick soft fur-and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. It told the children-whose names were Cyril, Robert, Anthea, and Jane-that it was a Psammead or sand-fairy. (Psammead is pronounced Sammy-ad.) It was old, old, old, and its birthday was almost at the very beginning of everything. And it had been buried in the sand for thousands of years. But it still kept its fairylikeness, and part of this fairylikeness was its power to give people whatever they wished for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RR9KQRQ
• ISBN13: 9798587667792
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"