The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

by Bill Brittain, Unknown Author

Hardcover

About the author

William E. Brittain was an American writer. He is best known for work set in the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.
Brittain was born in Rochester, New York. He decided he wanted to be a 5th-grade teacher, and in addition to teaching, used to read stories in mystery magazines. After some time, he decided he could do as good a job at writing as some of the authors he read; he got coaching on writing from Frederic Dannay of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (in which, along with Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, most of his mystery stories were published). He wrote two serials from 1964 to 1983, as well as other stories, before moving on to the children's books for which he is better known.
Brittain is also the author of the popular book All the Money in the World, which was adapted as a 1983 movie.

Reviews

[Katy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book as a child and remember reading it several times during elementary school and once again when I was 20. It was fun to re-read it with my ten year old. The story held up surprisingly well given its age. It is a classic tale of "be careful what you wish for, it just might come true," reinterpreted three ways for three different children/teens in the small town of Coven Tree long ago.