November 5, 2024

The Knitting Witch ~ Book Review

 


The Knitting Witch by Norma Kassirer

5 stars

Remember those creepy children's books from the 60s and 70s? This is one that was lost to time. Recently published by the author's daughter.

I LOVED it. When I saw the cover, it reminded me of my time in the school library as a child. Reading every creepy kids book I could get my hands on. The story is a little bit folktale, a little bit Grimm's fairy tale. With a lesson learned in the end. The story follows a family and a witch with an interesting magic. The cover art, endpaper (it's paperback but the inside of the cover has illustrations!), and illustrations inside the book are all beautiful with almost an Edward Gorey style. This would be a great book to read at bedtime with young school age kids. Takes about 20 minutes or so to read, longer if you let them look at the pictures and then the final paragraph ends nicely for goodnight.

See my review on Goodreads.

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