Well wished by franny billingsley5/23/2023 One child does come back-a girl named Catty Winter, who cannot walk. For Nuria's sake her grandfather wishes, giving the well carefully chosen words that he hopes will undo that spell. On such wish made all the children of the village vanish, leaving only Nuria-living up the hill from the village, she was outside that particular magic. Agnes, the Well's Guardian, was a mere shadow beside it, knitting as she rocked in the great stone chair, rocking and knitting just as each Guardian had done for as long as anyone could remember."Įleven year-old Nuria knows to distrust the magic of the well-the wishes it grants (one per customer) tend to be horribly twisted. But there was nothing blurred about the Wishing Well, which rose from the pale winter grass in a massive sweep of granite. "The trees stood black and sleek as skeletons, their crisp edges blurred to velvet by the failing light. So here are my thoughts on Well Wished, by Franny Billingsley (Atheneum, 1997). The nice thing about library books is that one can write about them late in the day on a Saturday in summer (a time when few readers are out and about) without any of the compunctions that one might feel when writing about a book received for review at such a time.
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