基本信息出版社：HarperCollins
页码：192 页
出版日期：1986年04月
ISBN：0064401685
条形码：9780064401685
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Trophy Newbery
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1984 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 1983 (ALA)
1983 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Best Books of 1983 (SLJ)
Notable 1983 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
1983 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)
Children's Books of 1983 (Library of Congress)
Books for Vacation Reading (NYT)
作者简介 Bill Brittain's tales of the rural New England village of Coven Tree are well loved by children of all ages. The Wish Giver was a Newbery Honor Book; it and Devil's Donkey were both named ALA Notabled Children's Books as well as School Library Journal Best Books. Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonders was a 1988 Children's Editors' Choice (ALA Booklist), and Professor Popkin's Prodigious Polish was named a "Pick of the Lists" by American Bookseller.
Mr. Brittain has written many other delightful books, which have also received high acclaim. Among these are All the Money in the World, which won the 1982-1983 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award and which has been adapted for an ABC-TV Saturday Special; and The Fantastic Freshman, which was named an ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
Bill Brittain lives with his wife, Ginny, in Asheville, North Carolina.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Various people take cards from Thaddeus Blinn, who says he can give them whatever they desire. Polly, who has a sharp tongue, asks to be well-liked. Rowena wants Henry to stay in town long enough to put down roots. Sam, sick of hauling water, wishes for water on his folks farm. They all get their wishes, with some truly horrible side effects, in Brittain's Newbery Honor Book.
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Review
"An eerie delight." -- NYT.
"In this account of sinister doings in Coven Tree, Stew Meat [of Devil's Donkey] relates the King Midas luck that came to three young people, each of whom had a wish fulfilled, and each of whom rued that fulfillment. [A] literary folk story at its best'folksy, fascinating and fun." -- SLJ.