This is a book about making new friends, finding out if wishes can come true. A wonderful series for young readers who are just discovering the joys of independent reading.
One evening Tad makes the mistake of wishing he was someone else. He wakes up as Bob Snarby, in the shabbiest funfair imaginable. Switched from a life of luxury to a life of squalor, Tad finds himself in a world of crime, cruelty, mysterious fortune tellers and the murderous Finn.
While shopping with her grandmother at a flea market, nine-year-old Ali buys an old Lava lamp that turns out to have a wish-granting genie inside.
When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.