Five Children and It | 
pickFour children and a baby discover a Psammead, a magical creature that can grant one wish per day. Unfortunately, wishes often come with unexpected consequences.
An enjoyable read. The chapters with Romanies and indigenous Americans wouldn't pass muster today but they are true to how the children imagine they would be, just as the author is quick to point out how the knights are based on story-books rather than how they would actually be.
pickOK story of children and wish granting that causes problems. Old fashioned English writing but still pretty clever. I would like to also read her Railway Children having seen a film of it once.
Starting this book in-between longer or more serious books just for fun. I have a copy but like this cover better so I'm using it here.
so-soOne of the less racist, less sexist children‘s books from the early 1900s I‘ve read so far (there is insensitive rep of Native Americans and there‘s some toxic masculinity related to fighting and not crying)! This is a fun story about magic and all the ways wishes can go awry. I realized I must have seen a TV adaptation of this book as a kid, because some of the chapters were extremely familiar. #MiddleGrade #Wish #1900s
Not the most elegant copy, but one of my favourites—along with The Railway Children—when I was young. #childrensbook #maylovesclassics @Sarah83 @Bambolina_81
pickThe second was OpShop yielded me this haul. My step daughters loved The Railway Children by E. Nesbit so I thought this might be a winner. I‘m a Francophile hence the French one. I also scored some DVDs for the kids and myself.
A little over 18 hours and starting to fade. Don't know if I'm going to make 24 ... @24in48
I'm reading this book for the first time with one of my students, and I find these children so horrid. I hope the Psammead (the "it" of the title) eats them in the end (although I've been told there's a sequel, so that ending seems unlikely).
