The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is grumpy but has the power to grant one wish a day, which must be made before sunset. Five siblings—Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and infant Hilary—encounter It and experience the highs and lows of frivolous wish-making.

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolat...

Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. ...

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newc...

Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ...

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a...

The stage musical Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby has toured the world to great acclaim. An adaptatio...

The heroes journey to the Purple Country and confront the witch Bastinda.

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr...

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowi...

Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sa...

As a newly crowned princess, Cinderella quickly learns that life at the Palace - and her royal respo...

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search ...

Four English orphans migrate to Tasmania to live on a farm in the wild Tasmanian bush with their aun...

Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives fore...

Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical wo...

During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited...

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales o...

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding ...