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Hazen, Barbara Shook

Katie's Wish

32 pp. | Dial | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2478-0 $$15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Because Katie, a girl in Ireland during the famine of the 1840s, ungratefully wished that potatoes would disappear from her supper table, she is certain that she is to blame for the sickness and blight around her. Her father relieves her guilt when they are reunited in Boston. Despite the cliché-ridden writing and the jarring happy ending, McCully's expressive watercolors deftly convey the mood, time, and place.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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