The Garden of Wishes

Fantasy

Your wishes can change the universe.

Nobody knows. But falling stars are actually seeds. Once they reach the Earth, those little black stones we call meteorites, can be gathered, planted and cultivated. It’s hard, but with the right amount of care they will sprout. And their luminous, magical aura makes people’s dreams come true: it is the flower of wishes. Among the forests of the Apennines there was a star-gardener who had learned how to take care of these delicate, sparkling plants; but after he died, the secret was lost. For a long time the plants he had cultivated did not flower, and the wishes continued to sleep. But then Davide and Margherita came, and discovered that managing people’s dreams is more difficult than you might think. But also much, much more adventurous…

  • A star gardener never plants his own wishes. Selfishness and bad wishes compromise all the seeds
  • A hymn to the power of wishes, able to change the whole universe.
  • A free, powerful adventure, where there is only one rule: never be selfish.
Publisher: DeA Planeta, DeAgostini
Target: 10+
Year: 2020
Author
Azzurra D’Agostino

Azzurra D’Agostino was born and lives in a small village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. She has published several poetry collections—winning the Carducci Prize and the Ciampi Valigie Rosse Prize, and being shortlisted for the Viareggio-Repaci Prize—and writes for the theatre, both for adults and children.
She has published numerous picture books and edited When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Poet, an anthology of poems written by children during workshops held across Italy. Her novels for young readers include The Garden of Wishes, Ghost Light – Emerging from the Dark Together, Cora in the Straight City, and The Night I Killed Kurt Cobain.
She also created the palmistry-inspired card deck Oracle of Destiny and edited the dreamlike-anthropological book Dreams and Symbols. In addition to writing, she leads poetry workshops for people of all ages.

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