" A real favorite which charmingly captures the mentality of young kids I used to read it every Halloween to the family - even my husband would come in to hear it. Wonderful, whimsical story punctuated by the delicate art work of Edward Ardizzone.
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.
It’s basically a gentle, sweet, funny story about a 7-year-old girl’s world of imagination.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. But of course, in her imagination at least, Amy herself gets swept into the world of Old Witch on a couple of hair-raising occasions. But Amy feels guilty about this and decides to color some company into Old Witch’s dull life, thus creating Little Witch Girl and Weeny Witchie Baby, plus a Little Mermaid Girl and a Weeny Mermaid Baby too. Amy has banished Old Witch to this desolate spot as punishment for doing evil things like eating little bunny rabbits, and Old Witch has to “be good” until Halloween if she wants to lead the “hurly burly” at that time. Purchase here The Witch Familyįrom the author of The Moffats and Ginger Pye, here is a very cute little story about two little girls, Amy and Clarissa, best friends, who sit and color stories Amy’s mother tells them about the wicked Old Witch who lives on the Glass Hill.
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