On his eleventh birthday sad orphaned Benjamin Bartholomew Piff accidentally adheres to all of the wishing rulesand in wishing for the mother lode of limitless wishes he unknowingly sets into a motion a chain of events that threatens to disrupt the balance between the magical realm of wishes and curses Before long Benjamin has been recruited by the Wishworks Factory director himself to fight the evil henchmen of the Curseworks Factory In the process Benjamin will reclaim his original wishgiving new credence to the old adage Be careful what you wish for
