Wishtree

Do you ever wondered if animals, trees, plants could talk? In the book called the Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, there is a tree that goes on this journey to try and make someone’s wish come true. Every year on the first of May people from all over town gets a scraps of paper, tags, fabric , snippets of yarn, etc and go up to the wish tree and makes a wish. One day a new family moved into town with a daughter named Samar. As she knew about the wish tree she went up to the wish tree and whispered, “I wish.. for a friend.” Then the wish tree named Red and her animal friends which is a bird named Bong and other animals go on the this journey to try and make Samar next door neighbor named Stephen become friends. While trying to make Samar and Stephen friends people from town want to countdown Red (wishtree). One thing I love about this book is it made me think what if trees and animals did talk? Anyway now it’s your turn to find out if they countdown Red or if they make Samar and Stephen friends. Hopefully you read this book.  if you do read this book, what were your thought and reaction to this book?