When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. “It” was a Psammead, and it was thousands of years old.
It was a strange little thing – it was furry and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cold and unfriendly, but it could give wishes – one wish a day. ‘It’s wonderful!’ the children said.
But wishes are difficult things they can get you into trouble.
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
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Vocabulary:
- Baker: a person who makes and sell bread
- Believe: to think that something is real or true
- Diamond: a very expensive, bright stone, often put in rings, etc
- Dig (past tense dug) to make a hole in the ground
- Enormous: very, very big
- Fair: a kind of travelling market, where you can buy things, play games, watch interesting things, etc.
- Fairy: a person or things which is not real, but which in stories does wonderful, impossible things.
- Fur: the soft hair on an animal’s body
- Good Heavens!: words that show you are very surprised
- Gravel: very small stones
- Gravel-pit: a big hole in the ground or the side of a hill, where people have taken away gravel and sand
- Jewel: a very valuable, expensive stone, e.g. a diamond
- Kick: to hit someone or something with your foot
- Lemonade: a sweet drink made from lemons and sugar
- Nursemaid: a woman servant who helps a mother with her baby
- Plum: a soft, dark-red or purple fruit
- Psammead: Edith Nesbit’s word for said-fairy (from a Greek word)
- Sand: very fine, light earth, usually white or yellow (often found on beaches)
- Servant: somebody who works in another person’s house
- Vicar: a priest, the man of the church
- Wish: to say what you would like to have or do (usually something which is not possible)
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