The Night of Wishes

Michael Ende. Farrar Straus Giroux, $7.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-374-45503-3

PW dubbed this ``a potent dose of comic fantasy, bubbling over with clever wordplay and slapstick incidents, and spiked with verse.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)

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