{"product_id":"9781469112459","title":"The Wizard of Wishes: and Other Tales for Happiness and Wisdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE WIZARD OF WISHES plays the “three magical wishes” theme, but with a few strange twists.  Readers (and listeners) may have fun following the rainbow-coded clues.  Could the story have happened?  No, you say?  Don’t be too sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE GOLDEN DEER illustrates the quality of metta, or loving kindness.  This rhymed version is adapted from Ten Jataka Stories, I.B. Horner (Bangkok, 1974).  A prose retelling, “Banyan,” appears in Twenty Jataka Tales, Noor Inayat Khan (Rochester, Vermont, 1975); another, “The Banyan Deer,” in The Hungry Tigress, Rafe Martin (Berkeley, California, 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A LITTLE MAGIC can be read as an old-fashioned fairy tale that takes place in an imaginary land.  But it can also be seen as a subtly inspirational ghost story.  Or even a universal, but Eastern-leaning, spiritual teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168953811184,"sku":"9781469112459","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469112459_p0.jpg?v=1763698192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469112459","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}