TITLE: Joha Makes a Wish
AUTHOR: Adapted by Eric A. Kimmel
ILLUSTRATOR: Omar Rayyan
PUBLISHER: Amazon Children’s Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 2010
GENRE: Fiction READING LEVEL: 2nd Grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Joha discovers a magic “wishing” stick, but soon realizes none of his wishes are coming true, in fact, the opposite happens. He causes many bad things to happen with his wishes, but soon finds out that he had been holding the stick upside down the whole time and has to undo all the bad things he has done
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will write down three wishes they want to be granted and why they want those wishes to come true
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Brandi Tompkins, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: foreign, Oral Tradition, Traditional Non-European
