Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin had been friends for several years-having met at and carpooled to a Boston poetry workshop-when they began writing books together for younger readers. The Wizard's Tears, first published in 1975, is moving and kind and funny in its intimate and modest way, yet strong and full of renewed life with stunning new illustrations from Keren Katz. The new wizard needs five of his own tears to bring rain, but he is so happy in Drocknock he cannnot cry! The drought is the town's most important problem, however. He is very young, and he is lonely, and very nervous too but he knows just where to find the right spells to stop the chicken pox epidemic and bring back the twenty cows that had disappeared. Everything is going wrong in the town of Drocknock until the new wizard arrives.
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