After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a 'Psammead' who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first appears...

The first in E.Nesbit's 'The Psammead' trilogy, published in the Strand Magazine from 1902.

Narrated by Michael