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Water Wishes (Magic Elements 1, paper)
Nine-year-old Polly and her younger brother, Sam, find a corked bottle at the beach. Inside is an ancient parchment promising three wishes. Before their adventure is over, older brother Joe will disappear and Polly and Sam will have to journey under the sea to get him back! This first book in the new Magic Elements quartet combines magic and adventure in an easy-to-read fo...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
September 16th 2009
by Random House Books for Young Readers
(first published May 25th 1999)
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Started this in order to recommend for a mother-daughter book club of 2nd grade girls, and was beginning to think it would be a good short series for them, but came across a startling mix-up of names that an editor should have noticed. Checked to see what the other 3 books an the quartet were, and learned they would be sort of difficult to get hold of. So, unfortunately, I don't recommend this brother-sister fantasy book. Evidently not too many other readers did, either.
As a pagan parent, I was excited to see this series for grades 3-5 introducing children to the concept of the four elements. In this first book, three siblings discover a wish-granting bottle in the ocean. The story focuses on their relationship to each other and their developing sense of magical ethics as they make, and recover from, the wishes they've chosen. Neptune makes a friendly appearance near the end of the story. While this is a fantastic story, it offers a lot for pagan children t...more
this was my favorite book as a kid i love love this book!
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