| Author/Contributor(s): | Turner, Megan Whalen |
| Publisher: | Greenwillow Books |
| Date: | 8/8/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A leprechaun is sighted in small–town New Hampshire.
At the Jaunty Fox tavern, an art student desperate to paint six country scenes for a dentist finds his hill overrun by greedy treasure hunters.
A city boy becomes a hero in prehistoric Sweden. Armed with a box of Roach Motels and a bag of boric acid, young Leroy discovers that even ancient Norse hunters have pest problems.
An elf prince tries to reward a girl who wishes he'd just leave her alone. Selene would rather bake buttermilk currant scones for her mother than accept golden coaches, magic palaces, or an ornamental fourteenth-century prince.
Across the sea, an apprentice baker is drafted into royal politics when a fussy minister decides he looks just like their long-lost monarch. In these and other delightful stories, magical adventure appears in the most unexpected places!
Instead of Three Wishes is a captivating collection of witty and sparkling fantasy stories from the Newbery Honor author of The Thief.
Ages 10+
- Fractured Fairy Tales: On a windy Carolina beach, a reserved girl climbs through a painting into eighteenth-century Venice to recover a stolen seal coat.
- Urban Fantasy: Perched high in the catwalks of an endless manufacturing plant, a crane operator discovers a hidden world where a ghostly girl trades poems and dreams of chocolate.
- School Drama: A junior-high bully demands whatever an old woman has in her pockets and ends up cursed with an inescapable nightmare that forces him to see himself through everyone else's eyes.
- Also by This Author: The Thief.