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Maggie Steincrohn Davis

Autor(a) de The Rinky-Dink Cafe

10 Works 86 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

Obras por Maggie Steincrohn Davis

The Rinky-Dink Cafe (1988) 33 exemplares
The Best Way to Ripton (1656) 20 exemplares
Something Magic (1991) 10 exemplares
Rickety Witch (1984) 5 exemplares
Choices of a Growing Woman (1993) 4 exemplares
Grandma's Secret Letter (1982) 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1943-05-30
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Membros

Críticas

a fun crazy cafe run by a bunch of crazy animals
1 book
 
Assinalado
TUCC | Jun 21, 2017 |
Althea Dolores Mathilda McBool, a rickety old witch with a good heart, lived on the prairie with two younger, far meaner witches, who were as "sour as lemon seeds," and who made her life miserable. Forced by the other two witches to clean and polish the wagon (which she herself had discovered), but forbidden from using it, Althea rebels one Halloween, driving it into town and dispensing treats to the local children. Rushing to get home, before the other two return from their holiday flight, and discover her defiance, she accidentally stumbles upon a method of ridding herself of her tyrannous roommates...

Witchy fiction gets a western flavor in this vintage picture-book from 1984 - do books published in the 1980s count as "vintage?" I'm not really clear on that, although this one feels vintage, in any case - with the prairie setting, and the wooden buckboard. I cannot say that Rickety Witch is ever going to rank with my favorites, when it comes to witchy picture-books, but I'm glad to have stumbled across it this past weekend, at my library, as I'm always looking for titles I haven't seen before, and I appreciate the unusual setting and themes. Recommended to anyone looking for prairie-witch tales, or Halloween stories with a western sensibility.
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Assinalado
AbigailAdams26 | Apr 24, 2013 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
10
Membros
86
Popularidade
#213,013
Avaliação
3.0
Críticas
2
ISBN
11

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