I remember reading the book to myself over and over when I was a couple of years older and able to read it on my own - I hadn't outgrown Amy and Clarissa at all. A parent reading to their child, however, will love every single word, understand an additional six dozen ways the book is delightfully funny, and be thrilled at how much their child is learning and how much more curious and engaged he or she is becoming both with books and with his or her own imagination. Christoper Robin is 3-5 in the Pooh books while Amy and Clarissa are 6 in this book, and in both cases there's no way a child of the protagonist's age would actually be able to read the book to him or herself. It has many of the same qualities as Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner - young children who live out tremendous adventures in their imagination with characters who are typically treated by the author as though they are also real, though every once in a while perspective shifts and you see the drawings of Old Witch, Little Witch Girl, Lurie (the little mermaid), Weeny Witchy, Malechai (The Spelling Bee - yes, he is an enchanted bee who spells everything he says) and the others, the same way the illustrations occasionally show you the animals in Winnie the Pooh as stuffed animals.Īnother similarity is in the witty sophistication of the language.
Eleanor Estes is the author of Ginger Pye and the Moffat books.This book is sheer perfection. A happy Halloween for any child about to be introduced to Amy and Clarissa and The Witch Family. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, this could well become a classic in the little girls' library, read and re-read for its piquant humor, its fluent imagination, and distinctive charm. There is also a buzzing spelling bee, and a mermaid, who despite her fondness for Little Witch, cannot manage to climb the glass hill to which the girls have consigned the witches. There is Wicked Witch, much too fond of devouring mermaids, Little Witch, who is lonely, and Baby Witch who must be looked after. The witches, in this case, present problems.
But unlike other girls, they are conversant with a whole family of witches, whom they conjure up by means of an adroit crayon. They go to school, enjoy swinging and popsicles, and endure with bravery, unpleasant things like polio shots. Almost seven, Amy and Clarissa, friends, live very much like other little girls in Washington, D.
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