Wait and See

by Robert Munsch

Other authorsDusan (Illustrator)

Paperback, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Description

It is Olivia's birthday, and when she blows out the candles on her cake and makes a wish--she gets exactly what she wanted!

Genres

Children's Books

Collection

C.O.W. Bus

Publication

Annick Press (2019), Edition: New, 28 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member tripleblessings

A favourite at our house. Olivia makes a birthday wish when she blows out her candles, and when her father says it won't come true, she says "Wait and see." When her wish comes true and causes some trouble, she has to have another cake to make another wish, and so it continues... Fun for the kids

to take a deep breath and blow out the candles along with Olivia. And a delightful surprise ending. Michael Martchenko's illustrations add more jokes to the story, as usual.

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LibraryThing member Charlee526

This is a really cute story! It would be great to read on someones birthday!

LibraryThing member KeriMullins

Wait and See is about a girl's birthday party. When she makes her wish she wishes for snow, snow, and more snow and she gets what she wishes for!

I really enjoy ready this book. They story is exciting to read because your anxious to see whats going to happen next.

This book could be read on someones

birthday. It could also be an example to be careful what you wish for. You could also talk about the different seasons and what kind of weather occurs during the seasons.

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LibraryThing member nmhale

I just read this book to my daughter, and it is another cute Munsch story that I am happy to have in our library. His stories are silly and capture a child's perspective wonderfully well. The words have a great rhythm for being read aloud. The pictures are vibrant and match the silly mood of the

story perfectly, and Olivia's special power of having all her birthday wises come true is just what every kid hopes for. Her final wish ends the story on a heart-warming note.

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LibraryThing member awalls4

I liked this book because of the language in the book. The book has repetitive words that are used in threes depending on what the main character, Olivia, wishes for. An example of this is, “I wished for SNOW, SNOW, and more SNOW”. The repetitive pattern makes the text memorable to a reader.

The book also includes text for the reader to go through the motions of blowing out candles by saying “Ahhhhhhhhhh” and “Whhhhhhhhhhhhw”. I think this provides an interactive piece for the reader to participate in the story. I think the main idea of this book is to teach readers to be careful what they wish for.

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LibraryThing member AMaffett

This would be a great book to use to show problem and solution. Showing how Olivia got rid of the snow.

LibraryThing member AyannaMagee

It was Olivia's birthday, so her mother and father baked her a birthday cake covered in frosting and candles. They told her to make a wish and blow the candles out. Olivia did just that, and her wishes came true. She wanted it to snow in the summertime. But it snowed a little too much for

everyone's liking. In order for the snow to stop, more birthday cakes had to be made so Olivia could make more wishes and blow the candles out

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LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini

This is fun enough and I like that it doesn't really make clear if Olivia is a magic girl or if it's just that every kid gets wishes on their birthday, but it also takes its sweet time getting anywhere sometimes and also also you can't blame Robert Munsch for this but Emmett only wants to look at

the page with the red truck, for minutes at a time, SIGH.

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