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Book Review
“Billy Miller Makes a Wish” is the delightful follow-up to “The Year of Billy Miller”. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the first book, which came out in 2013—this one works perfectly as a standalone story.
Kevin Henkes takes readers on a journey through the thoughts, imagination, and adventures of a small boy, evoking memories of childhood along the way.
In this story, Billy Miller is an eight-year-old living in a warm, loving family with his mom, dad, and energetic little sister. On his birthday, Billy blows out the eight candles on his cake and makes a wish—for something exciting to happen. What follows is a summer that’s perhaps a bit too thrilling for him!
Billy’s wish leads to a series of unexpected adventures: a death in the neighborhood, an eerie encounter with a “bat” in the basement, and the discovery of mysterious “love letters.” In a hilarious twist, his sister Sal delivers the letters to neighbors, playing the role of a cheerful postwoman.
As events unfold, Billy starts to believe that everything is happening because of his wish—and begins to worry he might have made a mistake. The story builds to a surprising and satisfying ending, showing Billy how his birthday wish truly comes to life.
Book Review
“Billy Miller Makes a Wish” is the delightful follow-up to “The Year of Billy Miller”. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the first book, which came out in 2013—this one works perfectly as a standalone story.
Kevin Henkes takes readers on a journey through the thoughts, imagination, and adventures of a small boy, evoking memories of childhood along the way.
In this story, Billy Miller is an eight-year-old living in a warm, loving family with his mom, dad, and energetic little sister. On his birthday, Billy blows out the eight candles on his cake and makes a wish—for something exciting to happen. What follows is a summer that’s perhaps a bit too thrilling for him!
Billy’s wish leads to a series of unexpected adventures: a death in the neighborhood, an eerie encounter with a “bat” in the basement, and the discovery of mysterious “love letters.” In a hilarious twist, his sister Sal delivers the letters to neighbors, playing the role of a cheerful postwoman.
As events unfold, Billy starts to believe that everything is happening because of his wish—and begins to worry he might have made a mistake. The story builds to a surprising and satisfying ending, showing Billy how his birthday wish truly comes to life.
Book Review
- “Billy Miller Makes A Wish” is a follow-up to “The Year of Billy Miller”. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the first book–which released in 2013. Billy Miller Makes a Wish makes a marvellous standalone read.
- The writer takes you on the journey of a small boy’s thoughts, imaginations and adventures which will remind you of your childhood days.
- Kevin in this story has so smoothly gone through psychology of an eight-year-old boy who stays with warm family -mom, dad and an overexcited little sister.
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Billy Miller blew out the eight candles on his birthday cake, he made a wish. He wished that something exciting would happen. What follows is an exciting summer that maybe is a little too exciting for his liking.
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Story further takes you to exciting events which follow like death in neighbourhood, encountering a “bat” while cleaning basement and discovering “love letters”. Then in a hilarious event his sister Sal delivers letters to neighbours while acting as friendly postwoman.
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All of this leads Billy to believe that everything is occurring because of his wish, and he begins to regret it, wondering if he can undo his wish.
- Exciting surprise comes in the end of the story. Which made Billy realized that how his birthday wish actually comes true in the end.
Last Word
- I loved reading this book because its full of humour, confusion, excitement, surprises and tattoos (which is quite fad in this age) which your child will surely enjoy.
- Suitable for the age group 8-12 years.
What I don’t like about the book?
- I just love this book there was nothing to dislike about it.
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Conclusion
I loved reading this book because its full of humour, confusion, excitement, surprises and tattoos (which is quite fad in this age) which your child will surely enjoy.
