What do you wish for? Third graders who read Ava Tree and the Wishes Three answer that question. Their sometimes comical and always sincere wishes reveal the magic and poignancy of childhood. Watch, too, for the murals they made illustrating their wishes.

This video is my daughter and son-in-law’s response to my birthday wish for a video to celebrate Ava Tree and the Wishes Three. Nicole Betancourt is a filmmaker with her own company Parent Earth and Bray Poor is a musician who designs sound for plays.

Send your wishes and I will post some in a future blog. Be sure to include your name and age.

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Fourth- and fifth-graders at Oyster Pond Elementary School in Orient, New York created their own illustrations for Ava Tree and the Wishes Three. Here are some of them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Children’s Services Librarian at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, New York--Joe Cortale--invited me to speak at Greenport Elementary School and the Oyster Ponds Elementary School in Orient, New York. Joe gave a copy of Ava Tree and the Wishes Three to each of the teachers who read the book to their classes before my visit. Joe also gifted each child with an autographed copy of a Pony Pal book.

 

The corridor at Oyster Ponds Elementary was decorated with illustrations for Ava Tree and the Wishes Three by the fourth- and fifth-grade students, and their teachers, Jennifer Wissermann with Amy Schill, and Karen Schulz and Corinne Fitting. 

 

The fourth and fifth grades, and Joanne Simicich’s third grade class created a bulletin board of their own wishes. 

 

I wanted to share some of their wishes with you: 

 

I wish my hamster could talk.

I wish I was better at Math.

I wish I could see my grandpa again.

I wish 9/11 never happened.

I wish the war was over.

I wish I was popular.

I wish that me, Grace, and Destany were long lost sisters.

I wish my mom wasn’t having heart surgery.

I wish there was no such thing as school.

I wish our family dog could be mine.

I wish I would be done with college.

My wish is to never get hurt or sick.

I wish time would just stop.

I wish I had a pet bunny.

I wish for a genie.

I wish I had a house that looked really small on the outside but was big on the inside.

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