Reviews

What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur by Jane Yolen, Alexander McCall Smith, Gary Soto, R.L. Stine, Cynthia Voigt, John Green, Karen Hesse, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Quintero, Marilyn Nelson, Nate Powell, Ann M. Martin, Meg Cabot, Naomi Shihab Nye, Francisco X. Stork, Francisco X. Stork, Cornelia Funke, Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni

lookatjimmy's review

4.0

A compilation of short stories and poems arount the theme of wishes. Overall a good, enjoyable, and at times quite depressing read.

theoreticallytrue's review

5.0

Each short story has an individual meaning and I love how deep and sophisticated this book is.

arisbookcorner's review

3.0

I liked Jane Yolen's poem "Wishes" and the story "Reasons" by John Green the best. But none of these stories truly stuck with me, I read this anthology awhile ago sometime in the summer and remember few of the stories. I wish there had been a few stories about actual Darfur refugees and the people who work to assist the refugees. Most of the characters in the stories were two-dimensional and very plot-driven. Its perfectly fine for a book to be plot driven but only when the characters are strongly represented and I did not find that to be the case in all the stories.

What You Wish For is worth buying because a few of the stories are excellent and the proceeds go to a worthy charity. Younger readers especially may enjoy these stories