One Christmas Wish

From beloved author Katherine Rundell comes a clever, funny, and poignant picture book about a lonely little boy who wishes not to be alone on Christmas.

A young boy's Christmas Eve wish on a shooting star leads to an adventure with an ever-hungry rocking horse, an angel whose wings are molting, a robin who has forgotten how to sing, and a rusting tin drummer boy in Katherine Rundell's classic Christmas story, with Emily Sutton's gorgeous paintings.

Author: Katherine Rundell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/18/2018
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781481491617
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 197316 / One Christmas Wish


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, and The Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.

Emily Sutton was born and raised in the depths of North Yorkshire, England, and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. She is the illustrator of the Clara Button books by Amy de la Hay and The Tale of Castle Mice by Michael Bond.