Review: Falls flat
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
A quartet of well-behaved children, a fairy who grants wishes, and the English countryside -- what's not to like?Here's what: the children out-right squander about half of their wishes.  And for the rest, they spent most of their time struggling against the bad effects of their wishes.  And the end of the book wraps up with very little changed in the world or in the characters.Too much "the fisherman and his wife", too little magical whimsical effect.Along with some other readers, I found this book by following references from Edward Eager.  Sadly (for this book), Eager did it a lot better.  However, I do like the other Nesbitt book I read, and I'm willing to try more.