The New York Times bestseller!It's an old oak tree. His name is Red. However, since ancient times it has been called the Wishing Tree. Every year on the first day of May, people tie scraps of paper and pieces of cloth to oak branches, on which they write their wishes.Trees do not know how to poison jokes. What they are good at is telling stories. But the trees have a rule: never talk to people.One winter, a new family settled in a tiny blue house under the canopy of the branches of an old oak. One night, a little girl tied a piece of paper to Red, on which was written: “I want to have a friend ...”