Wednesday Wilson Fixes All Your Problems
Wednesday Wilson is The Bee’s favourite book series by far. She loves a good series and has enjoyed the Lark Ba Detective series, The MegaBat series and The Fabled Stables series but Wednesday Wilson by Bree Galbraith and Morgan Goble is by far and above her favourite.
In Wednesday Wilson Fixes all Your Problems, Wednesday is struggling to come up with a new business idea and she is in a funk. Thanks to her nonno’s special marbles, Mister’s nerves about presenting his family tree and Emmet, of all people, she comes up with a fantastic idea but her execution could use a little finesse.
Wednesday Wilson is extremely relatable to young readers. She’s trying things out and succeeding and failing in equal measure. There is friendship success and trouble in equal measure and family success and trouble but in the end everyone learns something new about friendship, business and community.
I loved how Wednesday uses something gifted to her to help the people around her. Her Nono’s marble collection is very special and selling those marbles to the other children at the school helps them overcome something, fear, anxiety, sadness, etc. Her Worry Marbles help people worry less and they especially give the kindergartners in Misters’ class a lot of courage for their big presentation. Wednesday is reminded that perhaps helping without the expectation of a reward or payment is a better way forward. It’s an interesting thing to explore because Wednesday’s product did work, it helped people but maybe helping people should be something we do selflessly, instead of trying to profit off of the worry and anxiety of others. We are so excited to see how Wednesday will take all of these things she is learning and incorporate them into a new business idea.
Morgan Goble’s illustrations are once again brilliant! Since the readers of the Wednesday Wilson stories are mostly young and emerging readers, the illustrations really help to break up the text and add a ton of interest. Thanks to her appealing illustrations, The Bee is able to “re-read” the story in her own words while she is still becoming a more confident, independent reader.
