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The Wish in the Bottle
by MacLeod, Morna
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0590629700
- ISBN 13
- 9780590629706
- Seller
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Barberton, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York: Scholastic Inc, 1997. Book. Very Good-. Trade Paperback. 1st Printing. Very good - trade paperback. May be some rubbing or minor shelfwear but overall a nice clean tight copy..
Reviews
On Oct 28 2008, Annalovesbooks said:
ISBN 0590629700 - While the multitude of kids' series books are nice, it is always fun to come across the periodic stand-alone story. That The Wish in the Bottle is likely to appeal to both boys and girls is an added plus in my eyes.
Lani, Laurie and Mark are siblings: Lani is the oldest, then Mark and, last but not least, Laurie. Their family is spending the summer at Lincoln Pond and today, finally, the children have been allowed to row across the pond alone to picnic. While the older children bird watch, Laurie slinks off with Mark's butterfly net and spots a very unusual looking butterfly. Capturing it and putting it in a jar, Laurie keeps her catch hidden from her siblings until that night, when the glow from the jar keeps her awake. The three children find that Laurie hasn't caught a butterfly at all - she's captured a fairy! Not just any fairy, either. Ocavia is Queen of Avia and she must get home to protect her people from the bats who have been eating them, so a deal is struck: the children will get three wishes and Ocavia will get her freedom. Simple enough? Sure, if things had gone that smoothly!
The only real negative for me was the similarity of Lani's and Laurie's names, which - since I just met these characters - sometimes made it difficult for me to remember which was the oldest and which was the baby of the family. There's nothing particularly novel in the "three wishes" story, of course, but MacLeod does a great job of weaving the ongoing story of the fairies and the bats into the story of the children who (aside from an early slip) plan to think very carefully before wasting their wishes. What they learn, the reader learns, so there's a message in here, for parents who look for those, and a fantasy adventure for the kids who look for those. The illustrations (no illustrator listed) are nice pencil sketches, not numerous enough to make an older child feel like he or she is reading a "baby book", but enough to please the younger ones. The back cover says RL5, ages 7-12.
-AnnaLovesBooks
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Details
- Bookseller
- Snowball Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PZ8882
- Title
- The Wish in the Bottle
- Author
- MacLeod, Morna
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0590629700
- ISBN 13
- 9780590629706
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- FANTASY FICTION MAGIC CHILDREN JUVENILE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Snowball Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Barberton, Ohio
About Snowball Bookshop
A charming used bookstore in a renovated building in beautiful Downtown Barberton, OH. A general bookstore with over 1000,000 volumes of very nice condition hardcover and paperback books in all categories. Store hours are Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-4.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.