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Line 1: {{work}} ''[['''The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree]]''''' is a children's novel by Bill Brittain about four children who receive wish-granting cards from a mysterious vendor at the county fair. Three of the children make [[Literal Genie\|badly-worded wishes with unfortunate consequences]], and [[Hilarity Ensues]]: Polly, a sharp-tongued girl with very few friends, wishes to be popular. After the wish she can no longer say mean things or insult people, she croaks like a bullfrog instead. She becomes "popular", but only because the other schoolchildren are amused by her croaking. She realizes that if she was nicer, she would have more friends. Line 14: The book received the Newbery Honor in 1984. The obvious moral of the story is to [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]. ~~-------~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Alpha Bitch]]{{context}} * [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]{{context}} * [[Body Horror]]: Henry * [[The Everyman]]: Stew Meat Line 25: * [[Literal Genie]]: In the case of Rowena, whose wish ("I wish Henry Piper would set roots down in Coven Tree and never leave again!") causes her crush to turn into a tree. * [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday\|The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday.]] * [[Reset Button]]{{context}} * [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]: Rowena * [[Trickster Mentor]]: Thaddeus Blinn {{reflist}} {{Top 100 Banned Books 1990s}} [[Category:~~The Wish Giver~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Children's Literature]] ▲[[Category:The Wish Giver]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, The}}