The Lightning Bolt

by Michael Bedard

This story of dark enchantment, with haunting, larger-than-life illustrations, will hold readers in its spell long after they have turned the last page.... A stick that grants any wish and a magic cap that can read people's thoughts are the farthest things from the old woman's mind as she gathers wood in the forest. That is, until she helps a strange little man she finds twisted in the roots of an old tree. For her kindness he gives her his stick...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195407326
• ISBN13: 9780195407327
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 32 Pages
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7