A childhood favorite. Just a damn fun book even as an adult.

یک روز براورنده آرزو ها اومد به شهرمون. بهم گفت یه آرزو کن تا برآورده کنم. گفتم من یه پسری رو دوست دارم که فقط سالی یبار تابستونا میاد اینجا، کاری کن برای همیشه اینجا بمونه و ریشه بزنه . بعد پسره تبدیل به درخت شد.

I love that this book offers some fantasy and a glimpse at the old days. A great book to use for literary devices with students, too!

This book was #99 of the top 100 books challenged between 1990-1999, according to ALA, due to references to witchcraft in Salem and the use of magic. At a town social, carnival barker Thaddeus Blinn sells three children a card with a red spot that he says will grant them a wish. However, the children don’t word their wishes carefully, and suffer disastrous consequences, like Polly’s wish for people to pay attention to her that causes her to croak like a bullfrog whenever she says vain, mean words about other people. The children must seek out the fourth buyer, store owner “Stew Meat,” and use his wish to reverse theirs. Although the magic causes some harm, it doesn’t do any irreparable damage, and is used for didactic purposes to correct short-sighted and rude behavior in children.

This book was really fun! I did not finish it, but I only had a few pages left.

I first heard this book in elementary school and I absolutely fell in love with it. The stories are clever and have the twist of being written in the same style as folklore tales like "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- a style I absolutely love.

The story is somewhat predictable--strange little man comes to town offering wishes, but the wishes don't go as planned, and everyone learns a lesson in the end--but it is written with such charm and wit and the predictability actually seems to add to the story.

A couple years ago I bought a copy on Amazon and read it to my kids. They loved it and two have since read it again. So I recommend it for everyone!

A strange man comes to town for the annual fair, claiming to be able to grant wishes for fifty cents apiece. He sells four wishes, one each to four townspeople, then promptly disappears. The story of each person and their wish is told separately, but by the end they're all nicely entwined.
A fun version of the Foolish Wish trope, but nothing earth-shattering here.

This is a very cute book, with three tales. I read this as part of trying to read Newbery Medal Award and Nominees and finding out old jewel books on the way.

Polly, the girl, that wishes that other children will pay attention to her, and instead of her voice gets a bullfrog’s croak.
Rowena, who is in love with Henry, and just wants him to love her back and not leave so frequently, and gets Henry to stay with her wish.
And last, Adam, who wants to have water in the family farm. But his wish is going a bit wrong.

Each one is learning a lesson from their wish. And of course, there has to be a way to undo these wishes that go so wrong.

The bullfrog story reminds of the scene from The Phantom of the Opera. Maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber was inspired by this book that was published three years before Phantom made it out.

Almost 4 stars.

ok not the best story but good

The Wish Giver is about three children and one shopkeeper from Coven Tree, a town which has previously experienced magic. One day, a "Wish Giver" comes to town and things start to go wrong when the children start wishing.

at the begining of the book they are at a church social and see this tent that had a sign infront of it saying i can make all your wishes come true.so they all pay 50cents to make a wish but the thing is all there wishes are turned around cause they didnt word them right so the first chapter is about rowina and her wish is that people woluld pay more attention and wants to get invited to agatha and eurnices house.the second one is all about rowina her wish is that henry would plant roots but what she actully ment was that she wanted him to stay in coven tree so instead he turned into a tree cause thaddis blinn had turn her wish into what she said and her lesson learned is to never judge a book by its cover.chapter2 is about adam who made the best wish for his family but worded it really wrong his wish was that the whole farm was coverd with water so the farm got flooded instad of just having a pond.last chapter is about stew meat aka stwert his wish was worded right his didnt get messed up he wished that all the four youngings wish was cannncelled and every thing was back to normal and i want to tell you something polly learned that never say mean things and you will have more friends so every time she got mad she would say something bad to you the thing is to not get on here nerves

It is good book