On her way to school Jeanie finds a genie ring. She asks for a "brilliant day", but a homesick and hungry genie, confronted with rainy skies and school mashed potatoes, can be as much trouble as fun. The author is a winner of the Smarties Prize, "The Guardian" Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal.

It's the day after Christmas and William is in trouble, but he doesn't know what he's done wrong. Banished to the storeroom, he accidentally releases Mustapha, the genie of the bottle.