Take an incredibly popular but reclusive children’s book author and add a private island off the coast of Maine. Mix in four invitations to now-grown-up children to return to Clock Island to play a curious game with an incredible and life-changing prize. In the expert hands of author Meg Shaffer, you’ll get THE WISHING GAME, a brilliant star of a book that I liked so much that I read it all in just one day.

The story is clever and imaginative, filled with wit, humor, and heart. But this book is about more than a contest to win a manuscript. It’s about perseverance and resilience. It’s about disappointment and hope. And it’s about the strength of love.

I enjoyed every page and every scene. This is a story I can imagine re-reading time and time again, with the magic never fading or wearing thin.