Wicket Goes Fishing
Author: Melinda Luke
Illustrator: A. O. Williams
Medium: Picture book
Publication Date: January 1986
Timeline Placement: 1 ABYWicket is sick of babysitting Woklings, probably remembering his tribulations in The Baby Ewoks' Picnic Surprise. So when he finally has a day to himself, he leaps at the chance to try out his new fishing rod. Unfortunately for him, his mom catches him on his way out of the village and tells him to take his little sister, Winda, along. Wicket is pissed, but dutifully puts Winda on the back of Baga, his pet bordok, and leads them toward the river. Along the way, she loses his bait, eats all his food, and breaks his fishing rod when she throws it into a bush, causing Wicket to get poison ivy when he retrieves it.
Wicket complains to his mom that his little sister is a total bitch, but of course she takes Winda's side and sends Wicket to go see Logray for a treatment for his rash. Logray has just the thing Wicket needs, but roofies his Cortizone-10 so Wicket falls asleep and dreams of when he was a Wokling and followed his brother Weechee around, accidentally losing all his arrows and breaking his brand new bow. Weechee yelled at him and made Wicket cry, so he promised himself that if he ever had a little sibling he would never be mean to them.
Upon waking, Wicket is filled with guilt and goes to apologize to Winda. Before she goes to bed that night, he invites her to go fishing with him tomorrow. Yeah but with what rod, Wicket?
Cute book, sweet story.
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