FIVE CHILDREN AND IT by ELENA CÍSCAR

It is the school holiday, so five children are travelling to a house in the country. The four older children went to play and found a sand fairy who gave them wishes. The children started making wishes that they would enjoy. One wished to be taller, the other to fly, another to have a lot of money. They kept making wishes for themselves. One day they wished for their mother to have jewels. Lady Chittenden’s jewels were missing, so their mother thought the thieves wanted to hide the jewels in their house, but she was wrong it was the jewels that the children had wished for. The sand fairy was tired of making so many wishes. So, they proposed that they would have four more wishes and never to ask for more again. They asked the sand fairy for their mother to forget about the new jewels, and for Lady Chittenden to find her jewels that had been missing…