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Ella May and the Wishing Stone
  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781770492257
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $35.00

Ella May and the Wishing Stone

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Cary Fagan is the award-winning author of many books for both adults and children, inlcuding Tundra's own, Thing-Thing. In this new book, Cary explores the time-honoured themes of friendship and imagination, with a cautionary note about being careful what you wish for.

One day, Ella May finds a stone that has a line going all-all-all the way around it. Surely a stone this special must grant wishes, she decides. Soon she is busy making wishes and bragging about them. When her friends want to share the fun, Ella May objects. But she soon learns that keeping the stone for herself is a sure way to lose friends. By using her imagination – much more powerful than any stone – she is able to grant everybody’s wishes, including her own.

Cary Fagan’s witty and sharply observed story will delight young readers who are beginning to explore the pleasures and challenges of sharing and friendship.
  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781770492257
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Cary Fagan

CARY FAGAN's kids' books include Robot Island; Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door; Water, Water (winner of the Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Award); The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster; the Kaspar Snit novels; and the Wolfie and Fly chapter book series. He is also the author of many picture books, including Mr. Zinger's Hat (Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award winner), Little Blue Chair, and Bear Wants to Sing.  Cary has received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work.  He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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Also by Cary Fagan

Robot Island
Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door
Water, Water
Bear Wants to Sing
The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster
What Are You Doing, Benny?
Mort Ziff Is Not Dead
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Praise for Ella May and the Wishing Stone

Praise for THING THING
"Fagan's story, and its serendipitous end, will please those on laps or large groups; Debon's vertiginous cityscapes, with wildly varying perspectives and orientations supported by a leaping, swirling typeface, are just as good a match to the text as Thing-Thing and its new owner."
- Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews

"The toy named Thing-Thing - is the hilarious heart of this delectable picture book."
- Top 10 for 2008, The Globe and Mail

Praise for The Fortress of Kaspar Snit
"Sheer fun and wordplay is a big part of what makes this short novel so successful ... Fagan has a gift for the rhythm of story, and his sly humour is always unexpected and entertaining."
- The Toronto Star