Pre-Owned Luba and the Wren (Paperback) by Patricia Polacco

from brittneydufrene

Patricia Polacco has very beauitful details with her illustrations. Most of her stories are about life and family. She comes from a large family and many of her stories are about them. Luba is a young girl who saves Wren's life. Her parents are greedy and want Luba to ask for a favor in return. B...

from klsulliv

How many people would take a wish and run with it? Not Luba. Luba is very content with her life. Her family is poor, and they live in a small house. She stumbles upon a wren that is tangled in a net and sets it free. In return he tells her he will grant her any wish she wants. Luba tells the wren...

from mosbor

Luba saves a bird in distress while walking through the forest. The bird grants her a wish, but Luba is content in life and wants for nothing so she declines the bird's offer. Upon recanting the story to her parents she is reprimanded for thinking only of herself and told to ask the bird to grant...

from AbigailAdams26

Patricia Polacco, whose autobiographical picture-books, from Thank You, Mr. Falker to Uncle Vova's Tree, are unfailingly poignant, here turns her attention to the world of folklore, creating in Luba and the Wren a Ukrainian variant of the tale-type best known as The Fisherman and His Wife. When k...

from kloupe1

This story is a variation of "The Fisherman and his Wife" tale except, Luba had to keep going back to the wren after she saves him from being caught and her parents are making her continually go to the wren for more and more wishes until all the wishes were taken away and they realized that Luba ...