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"Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis have lost their father. He has disappeared and, with him, their happy life in London too. They have a new life now, in a new place, in a new (but truly quite old and shabby) home beyond the train tracks. Each day of this new life, they greet the 9.15am train and hope it carries their love to Father, wherever he has gone. But the railway promises to bring something else entirely . . . Along its tracks, the siblings will stumble...
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Arriving at their new rural home, five siblings - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb - set to exploring the surrounding countryside. Whilst digging in the gravel-pit, they unearth the most curious creature: a Psammead, an ancient (and rather testy) Sand-fairy, with the power to grant wishes. Between them, the children have a sizeable list of requests - remarkable beauty, vast riches, the ability to fly. But, as everyone knows, wishes always...
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In the second novel of the Bastables, the family fortune as been restored, but that doesn't stop the children from getting into adventures and trouble. They are eventually banished to the country, where they form the society of the Would-Be-Good to aid all mankind and themselves in the bargain.
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"Sluchayetsya v zhizni tak, chto v dom prikhodyat gore i bednost'. Dlya vzroslykh eto prichina pechalit'sya, mnogo rabotat', dumat' o vlozheniyakh i kreditakh... A dlya detey (osobenno, yesli v sem'ye ikh shestero) -- eto prekrasnyy povod zanyat'sya poiskom sokrovishch. O, stoit tol'ko khoroshen'ko podumat', i otyshchetsya tysyacha sposobov popolnit' semeynyy byudzhet! Mozhno perekopat' sad v poiskakh klada. Mozhno poluchit' gonorar za knigu stikhov...