If You Want to Make a Wish: A Picture Book

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For Nicole, the best friend a girl could wish for —J.A.

For my sister Julia and our magical Make-A-Wish memories —S.G.

The illustrations in this book were rendered digitally.

Book design by Melissa Nelson Greenberg

Published in 2025 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.

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ISBN 978-1-949480-38-2 eISBN 979-8-88707-427-6

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If you want to make a wish . . .

you can wish on a penny.

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You can find a wishing rock and carry it in your pocket.

You can wish on a feather.

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Or close your eyes and toss the rock over your left shoulder.

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Look, a dandelion puff! Make a wish and blow, and all the seeds will fly away. They will carry your wish on tiny umbrellas to the homes of fairies who make wishes come true.

If a ladybug lands on your shoulder, wish her well before she flies away. She might just grant you a wish, too.

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You can write down your wish on a piece of paper, roll it up, and put it in a bottle. Then drop the bottle in the ocean. It will sail away, and after a long time, it may come to the island of the old man and the seagull who grant wishes.

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Or maybe the sea will keep your wish and give you something in return.

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Make a wish on your birthday! Count the candles on your cake and blow. Don’t tell what you wished for, or it won’t come true!

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Sometimes wishes are for something simple— ice cream, a goldfish, or an afternoon flying a kite.

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But sometimes wishes are so much bigger . . . like wishing you’d find your lost puppy.

Or that your friends wouldn’t fight.

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Or that your grandma wasn’t sick.

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You can’t make every wish come true.

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you can think of ways to help your wishes along.

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At night before you fall asleep, you can wish on a star and remember all your wishes.

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Then you will have many beautiful dreams and sail away on a tiny dandelion umbrella to the land of the old man and the seagull where wishes come true.

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But always keep a penny in your pocket, just in case.

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