Author: Eva Wells
Publisher: Beaver’s Pond Press
Keywords: fishing, wishing
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1592981682
ISBN-13: 9781592981687
"He’ll gently back the trailer in, and watch the boat glide with a grin." Take a trip across the lake on a young boy’s first spring fishing trip with his dad. As the winter melts into spring, the two prepare the boat, gather their gear, and reel in their first fish. This beautifully illustrated story captures a child’s joyous anticipation and the thrill of the first catch.
Author: Robert Heidbreder
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Keywords: day, wishing, sea
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1553377079
ISBN-13: 9781553377078
Ahoy, mateys! Let’s hop a ship and sail away ... On a hot summer day, a wish transforms an urban backyard into a place of breezy high-seas adventure. As our bold Captain and Skipper ride the salty waves, they encounter a beastly sea monster, buried treasure, a scurvy pirate crew, lovely mermaids and more. The creative pair who brought you the acclaimed I Wished for a Unicorn offer up another celebration of the boundless distances a childhood wish can travel. With rich, spirited illustrations and sparkling rhymes that beg to be repeated, A Sea-Wishing Day is a spellbinding voyage into the
Author: Penelope J. Stokes
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: novel, jar, wishing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-01-07
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 084994466X
ISBN-13: 9780849944666
Abby Quinn McDougall is a Southern lady whose once picturesque small-town life seems to be shrinking. Widowed at fifty and burdened by the care of an ailing mother and a cantankerous teenaged daughter, Abby wishes her life were simpler and her responsibilities fewer. Abby’s daughter, Neal Grace, devastated by the loss of her doting father and the illness of her beloved grandmother, wishes for change, for the chance to break free from other people’s expectations. And Abby’s mother Edith wishes only to be liberated from life itself. But wishes often backfire. As their wishes b
Author: Elisa Kleven
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: ball, wishing
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0374384495
ISBN-13: 9780374384494
Nellie is a stray cat who wishes she had a house to live in,warm meals, and a best friend. When a crafty crow overhearsher wishing, he decides to play a trick on her for his ownamusement – which is how Nellie ends up putting all her faithin a rubber ball she believes to be a magic star that grantswishes. But even though it’s not a magic star, the rubber ballturns out to be just what Nellie needs. When the ball bouncesout of her grasp, Nellie chases it into a faraway town, and oneby one, all of her wishes come true.This is the story of a delightfully surprising chain of events,with lively i
Author: Paul Pearsall
Publisher: Hyperio
Keywords: true, come, wish, making, wishing
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-04-18
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0786884738
ISBN-13: 9780786884735
Are your wishes coming true? Do you have a very special wish that still hasnt been granted? Have you ever made a wish you ended up regretting? These common questions are a curiosity to us all. Wishing Well is the first book to present proof of the subtle but magnificent power of wishing in your daily life. Its the first guide to making wishes that lead to the life you and those you love have always wished for.
Author: Minrose Gwin
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: memoir, snow, wishing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2004-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0807129283
ISBN-13: 9780807129289
In this brave and lyrically composed tribute to her mother, Minrose Gwin accomplishes something rare in the craft of the memoir: not merely a record of a devastating mother-daughter relationship but a redemptive act of artistic witness as well. In telling the story of her mentally ill poet mother, Erin Taylor Clayton Pitner, Gwin looks backward and forward at a southern family, linking personal and cultural malaise while also attempting to envision the person her mother longed to be, the woman Gwin never knew.Erin Taylor wasn’t always crazy. Her childhood diary from 1930 reveals a cheerful,
Author: Linda Michelin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: cake, wishing, zuzu
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-09-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 061864640X
ISBN-13: 9780618646401
What Zuzu wants, Zuzu makes. In her happy hands a brown paper bag becomes a flower or a hat. Cardboard becomes a tent, a telescope, or a car. Zuzu makes everything into something else. But making a friend of the boy next door turns out to be harder than she thought. Can she get him to smile?With the pictures by award-winning illustrator D. B. Johnson, Linda Michelin tells this exuberant story of a red-haired girl and her irrepressible imagination.
