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An enormous banyan tree with thick, leafy branches grew in the center of a village near an ancient temple in a green valley with a gurgling stream.
Every Lunar New Year, Ming and his grandmother visited the Wishing Tree. Its branches were covered with wishes, each written on red and yellow paper cluttering in the breeze, secured by the weight of an orange.
Grandmother warned him to wish carefully, and sure enough, Ming's wishes always seemed to come true. But one year-when Ming made the most important wish of his life-the tree let him down.
The Wishing Tree is about the excitement of making wishes, the anticipation over waiting for them to come true and the futility of making unrealistic ones. It is also about the love between a boy and his grandmother, and the realization that sometimes, we already possess the most important things in life.
Roseanne Thong is one of Hong Kong's leading children's books authors, and in The Wishing Tree, she brings one of Hong Kong's most beloved icons to life.
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Review: The Asian Review of Books
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