This document summarizes the children's picture book "Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World" which takes readers around the world to see how children in different countries make wishes according to their traditions. Each page features illustrations of a country's landscape and children, depicting what they wear, what they look like, and how they make wishes. The book shows children happily spending time with their families and friends in each country. It also lists 13 countries featured in the book, including Guatemala, India, Japan, Brazil, Iran, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Ireland, Thailand, Mexico, and the United States.

1. Visual Response to
Literature
Jennie L. Osborne
LAE 6316

2. Wish:
Wishing Traditions
Around the World
By Roseanne Thong
Art by Elisa Kleven

3. Make A Wish…
• This picture book takes the reader around the world
to see how children from different countries make a
wish. Each page illustrates the country’s landscape,
the type of clothes the children wear, and what they
look like. The illustrations also show the children
of each county making a wish!

4. Our brightly glowing lotus boats
sail off beneath the moon.
They tow away bad luck so that
our wishes come true soon. (Thong, 2008)

5. Happiness
•Each illustrations shows children filled
with happiness. The families are enjoying
their time together cooking, taking walks,
or frolicking through fields. Children are
playing with friends, laughing, learning,
eating, and simply…
•being happy!

6. Featured Countries:
• Guatemala • India
• Japan • Brazil
• Iran • Italy
• Russia • China
• South Africa • Australia
• Ireland • Israel
• Thailand • Mexico

7. Last but not least…
America

8. Reference
• Thong, R. (2008). Wish: Wishing traditions
around the world. San Francisco, CA:
Chronicle Books LLC.