Molly and the Magic Wishbone

by Barbara McClintock

Book Overview

A delightful picture book loosely based upon the Charles Dickens storyThe Magic Fishbone. When Molly's fairy godmother tells her that she will find a magic fishbone that will grant her but one wish,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374349991
• ISBN13: 9780374349998
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Book!

This is a beautiful book with the most amazing illustrations you will find anywhere! My daughter is almost 3 and wants to hear this story over and over, and I love to read it to her. VERY highly recommended!!

DELIGHTFUL WITH A MORAL WORTH REMEMBERING

Warm period watercolors bring to life this classic tale borrowed from Charles Dickens's story "The Magic Fish-Bone." When Molly went to buy fish for dinner, she happened upon an old woman who told her that she would find a bone in her portion of dinner fish. The woman identified herself as Molly's Fairy Godmother, told her the bone would provide her with one magic wish, and then disappeared. Molly thought her imagination might be working over time, and went home. Yet, that evening, sure enough, there was a bone left on Molly's plate. She kept the bone and contemplated everything for which she might wish but nothing seemed quite right. What she really wants is eventually revealed, and with it a lesson in patience and rectitude for young readers. The illustrations are delightful, and the moral worth remembering.