Wish-Bringer: Little Monk Book 2

There are parts of the world where people think Bad Luck comes up from below, and Good Luck comes down from the sky. Not in Naples. In Naples bad luck and good came from just one place: Monacello. In the second instalment of the Monacello trilogy, the 'Little Monk' who brings both good and bad luck is begrudgingly transformed into the Wish-Bringer. Encouraged by his mysterious friend Napolina, only when she isn't looking too closely does he return to mischief-making. There is one wish, however, that Monacello cannot grant; he still does not know the rest of his story; the mystery of his parents and why he came to be left outside the doors of a nunnery one cold morning. In The Wish-Bringer, once again beautifully illustrated with Jana Diemberger's stunning artwork, Monacello faces up to his enemies and comes one step closer to discovering the truth about his past. When it comes to the Little Monk though, bad luck can never be far away, and soon Monacello is called upon to grant the hardest wish of all... AUTHOR: Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 150 books for children and best-selling titles Peter Pan in Scarlet, the only official sequel to Peter Pan, published in 2006; The Death Defying Pepper Roux (2009); and White Darkness (2008). She has won every major children's book prize: the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1989 for A Pack of Lies, and she is the only author to have won the Whitbread Award three times. Colour illustrations