Wanda's Roses - Softcover

Brisson, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156397925X ISBN 13: 9781563979255

Publisher: Astra Young Readers, 2000

Synopsis

When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in an empty lot, she's quite sure it's a rosebush ready to bloom. So she clears away the trash, checks on it every day, and brings water from the butcher shop across the street. But no roses appear. Wanda's neighbors and friends are all doubtful, but when she invites them to a tea party in her "rose garden" one day in June, they're in for a big surprise. Pat Brisson's warm-hearted story and Maryann Cocca-Leffler's vibrant illustrations make this book about a child's simple faith one that children will long remember.

About this title

About the Author

Pat Brisson is the author of the Christopher Award-winning The Summer My Father Was Ten and the author of the "Kate" books--Your Best Friend, Kate; Kate Heads West; and Kate on the Coast. She lives in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, with her husband and their four sons. 

Maryann Cocca-Leffler is the illustrator and author of Bus Route to Boston and Clams All Year. She lives ini Amherst, New Hampshire.

From Publishers Weekly

Brisson ( Your Best Friend, Kate ) creates a lovable new character whose unwavering optimism transforms a rubbish-ridden vacant lot into a rose garden. Convinced that a bare thornbush is really a rosebush about to bloom, Wanda exuberantly cleans up the lot so that the bush will get more sun and air. "You'll see," she says, "in a few weeks that whole lot will be full of roses." Wanda's neighbors are skeptical: "If that's a rosebush, then I'm the queen of England," one thinks to herself; "If that's a rosebush, then I'm the king of France," the next muses privately. Still, charmed by the girl's enthusiasm, they all help her. After a month without blooms but with much camaraderie, Wanda's neighbors contribute rosebushes, and "the whole lot was filled with the biggest, most beautiful, sweetest-smelling roses that anyone had ever seen--just as Wanda had always said it would be." Cheery watercolors complement this upbeat urban tale, genially depicting the city's great variety, from a chubby butcher to a kindly old woman with nylon knee highs rolled down around her ankles. Ages 4-8.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Astra Young Readers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 156397925X
• ISBN 13: 9781563979255
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Cocca-Leffler Maryann