![]() ![]() ![]() Don't care for the cover drawing on this edition, but the illustrations by Ardizzzone are charming. " I loved this book when I was a child, and was pleased to see it work its magic on my own daughter as well. " I read this at least twice: 1962 with Judy Davidson (vwall, vmail), 1995. ![]() " This book vastly affected life as a child and gave me a better understanding of who my mother really was. " I'm sure I'd love this if I'd read it as a kid, but coming to it for the first time as an adult, it didn't really grab me. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.but it is really happening to the witch family. Two seven year old girls tell stories and draw pictures of a witch family. "This is Aerie's next book club party book (march 2008) very fun. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill … as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make-believe made real. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she’d better be good-or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. ![]() Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch … until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying “heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away … by two young girls. ![]()
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