This American children's classic concerns four children who discover a magic coin which only grants half wishes. The children end up half invisible and half on a desert island (which is, of course, just a desert) and have many more adventures with the magic coin.

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Oxford University Press .

Edward Eager (1911-1964) worked primarily as a playwright and lyricist. It wasn't until 1951, while searching for books to read to his young son, that he began writing children's stories. Quentin Blake is the internationally acclaimed illustrator of more than two hundred award-winning books, including several classics by Roald Dahl. He lives in London.