That is, if you wished you were somewhere else, you'd end up halfway between where you were and your destination. Because, unlike in all the stories about wish-granting they'd read, the children figure out that this talisman grants its bearer every wish by halves. That perfectly ordinary nickel turns out to be a perfectly extraordinary magic talisman, or, rather, a half-magic one. Then one day Jane happens upon a perfectly ordinary nickel on the sidewalk, puts it in her pocket, and utterly unwittingly starts the story going. Nesbit, and bemoan the fact that nothing fantastical ever happens to them. They love to read books, particularly the fantasy novels of E. Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha are four perfectly ordinary kids living in a perfectly ordinary Ohio town in the 1920s.
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