Carmela Full of Wishes

The duo behind Last Stop at Market Street, the rare picture book weighty enough to win the Newbery Medal, returns with another story balancing melancholy and hope. It's Carmela's birthday, and she gets her dearest wish, to finally go on family errands with her older brother, only to learn from him, in the usual mean-and-sweet big-brother way, that there is another wish to be made. It's a lovely and tender story. (Ages 2 to 6)