Sunday, April 5, 2009

Wish


Wish by Roseanne Thong is one of the most informative, interesting, and enjoyable books I have ever read. The book tells a little blurb about how different countries make wishes. This is an excellent book to include diversity in the class room. This book shows how countries are different because they have different traditions for wishing, but then it also shows how the countries are the same because they all have some form of wishing. This is a great book for students to read during reading workshop who have trouble finding a book that they are interested in. I have found many times kids enjoy reading lists of things, and they will not even realize it is a form of reading. This is also a great book to recommend for nonfiction reading because it is true text, but it is not dry and boring. After reading this book, it was also fun to see what wishing traditions America has borrowed from other countries. It seems we borrowed the lucky penny idea from Rome and Russia, we borrowed the blowing dandelion idea from Ireland, and we have borrowed the making a wish on an eye lash from Mexico.

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