Wishes Won't Wash Dishes

by Frank Shankwitz, Suzanne DeSimone (Illustrator)

Overview

Wishes Won't Wash Dishes is a loosely autobiographical book about the childhood of Make·A·Wish founder Frank Shankwitz who often day-dreamed about his future despite the pleas of his mother to finish washing the family's dishes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578812243
Publisher:	Wishes Won't Wash Dishes
Publication date:	01/22/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	46
File size:	31 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 Months to 12 Years

About the Author

Frank Shankwitz is one of the creators and a founders of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an extraordinary charity that grants the wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. Frank also had a long and distinguished career in law enforcement as a motorcycle highway patrolman and cold case detective. In 2015, Frank joined six U.S. Presidents as well as Nobel Prize winners and industry leaders as a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Frank is a frequent keynote speaker and the feature of a forthcoming motion picture. He resides with his wife in Prescott, AZ.
With more than 20 years of professional creative direction and design experience, Suzanne has a deep understanding of how to nurture a seedling idea so that it may grow into a strong and vibrant concept. But true artistic vision cannot be learned over the course of a career. It comes from within. And at the heart of it all, Suzanne DeSimone is an artist with the innate ability to paint the world as a child sees it: with unyielding honesty. Her good-natured sense of humor s hines through in her first illustrated book, My Princess Boy™. And now, Suzanne is proud and excited to share more of her whimsical illustrative style with you in her second, third and now fourth books, "Oh Fiddlesticks!", "Zarin's Perfect World" and "Wishes Won't Wash Dishes.