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Title: The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes, Edward Ardizzone ISBN: 015202610X Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85
Rating: 5
Summary: The Witch Family, by Eleanor Estes
Comment: It has been 30 years since I have seen this book--I never owned it, and it was a non-circulating book in the local children's library-- but the summer I turned seven, I spent hours reading this book day by day in the children's section of the library at Lincoln Center while my parents did their graduate work upstairs in the adult collection. I still vividly recall the characters: Amy with hair the color of moonlight whose mother gave her a lambchop for lunch each day, Clarissa with hair the color of sunlight whose mother gave her spaghetti for lunch each day, Malachi the Bumblebee, and, of course, the make-believe characters Hannah and her baby sister and the Old Witch and the mermaids who lived in the Big Glass Hill. Back in those days, we did not have any super-heros (no female ones, anyway), no Wonder Woman, no Warrior Princesses capering across the TV in their undies, not even Sailor Moon and co., and so if you wanted to make believe you could fly, Hannah the Little Witch Girl was all there was. My friends and I used to pretend to be Hannah and Amy and Clarissa in a gem-studded forest landscape taken from James Thurber's The White Deer. On imaginary broomsticks, we careened around stuffy apartments full of couches and dining chairs holding loquatious, boring adults. The book also holds appeal for the child with a systematic mind--the sort of child who types out alphabetical lists of dinosaur species will also enjoy writing out alphabetical compendia of all the runes spoken in the story!
Rating: 5
Summary: A captivating, enchanting story for girls of all ages.
Comment: For more than 30 years, I've been searching for a copy of The Witch Family. It's been in libraries but I couldn't remember the proper title or author until one day last year, I stumbled upon listings for Eleanor Estes quite by accident. I quickly grabbed up a beaten up copy (which was very comforting....it looked just like the one I used to repeatedly check out of the library back in the 1960's!). I stood there and hugged the book and then rushed home and tried to explain to my husband that I was 8 years old again and I had business with Amy, Clarissa and the little witch girl to attend to. Why is this book so special? I don't know...Maybe because I moved a lot and always had to make new friends, where Amy and Clarissa were inseparable best friends. Maybe because of the wonderful imagery and fantasy level: the fear and fascination of witches and the idea of a sweet baby witch girl conjured up by the girls' drawings. There was also a mermaid and baby mermaid...what little girl wouldn't be in heaven with all these characters? I think another attraction of the book is that it's virtually adult-free. There is a wicked old witch but even her actions are controlled by Amy and Clarissa. I believed in this book wholeheartedly. I could picture the girls trick or treating on Halloween, I could hear the effect their stopped up noses had on their voices when they had to stay in because they had colds, I believed that if I looked closely at the moon, I'd see the little witch girl, baby in tow, on her broomstick. I love this book. When I finally re-discovered it, I was returned to my childhood.
Rating: 5
Summary: A childhood classic!
Comment: When I was a little girl I loved all books having to do with magic, and especially witches. This book was my all-time favorite. I checked it out of the library so many times that eventually the card in the back was filled up with my signature on both sides!
This book is about magic, but it's also about the power of imagination. The Witch family, all though very real in their own right, have been created out of the mind of little girl who's mother first introduced her to them. Amy appoints herself caretaker to the witch family, and through the pictures she draws of them she can keep tabs on all that is going on in their world "up on the great glass moutain".
A benchmark of good childrens literature, this book holds up under the test of time. I have re-read it as an adult and still enjoyed it very much. I can't wait until my own children are old enough for me to share it with them.
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Title: Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes, Edward Ardizzone ISBN: 0152025650 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin ISBN: 0156423502 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin ISBN: 0152025774 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin ISBN: 0152025294 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes ISBN: 0152025057 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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