The Wishing Tree

By Roseanne Thong
Illustrations by Connie McLennan
Published by Shen’s Books, California

An enormous banyan tree with thick, leafy branches grew in the center of a village near an ancient temple in a green valley with a gurgling stream.

Every Lunar New Year, Ming and his grandmother visited the Wishing Tree. Its branches were covered with wishes, each written on red and yellow paper fluttering in the breeze, secured by the weight of an orange.

Grandmother warned him to wish carefully, and sure enough, Ming’s wishes always seemed to come true. But one year—when Ming made the most important wish of his life—the tree let him down.

For age 5 - 12

Winner of 2006 Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural Literature
http://www.skippingstones.org/book2006.htm 

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