Instead of Three Wishes (Puffin Short Stories) - Softcover

Megan, Turner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140386726 ISBN 13: 9780140386721

Publisher: Puffin, 1998

Synopsis

In a collection of stories by the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Thief, a leprechaun is sighted in a small New Hampshire town, an inner-city boy goes back in time to prehistoric Sweden, and a ghost haunts her home, now a factory site. Reprint.

About this title

Review

"An ebullient collection. Delightful." -- The New York Times Book Review

"The inventiveness and control shown here augur well for Turner's future endeavors."--Publishers Weekly

"A refreshing first book, this introduces Turner as an entertaining, original storyteller with something to say."--ALA Booklist (starred review)

"Deftly told. Combines a shrewd wit with an eye for the endearingly absurd. A fine debut."--The Horn Book

"Turner employs an assortment of folk- and fairy-tale elements with freshness and ease."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"An ebullient collection. Delightful."--The New York Times Book Review

An ebullient collection. Delightful. --The New York Times Book Review"

A refreshing first book, this introduces Turner as an entertaining, original storyteller with something to say. --ALA Booklist (starred review)"

Turner employs an assortment of folk- and fairy-tale elements with freshness and ease. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"

Deftly told. Combines a shrewd wit with an eye for the endearingly absurd. A fine debut. --The Horn Book"

About the Author

Megan Whalen Turner is the bestselling and award-winning author of stand-alone novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief. She has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. She has won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. She worked as a bookseller for seven years before she started writing. Her first book was a collection of short stories called Instead of Three Wishes. Megan Whalen Turner lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140386726
• ISBN 13: 9780140386721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144