The Witch's Children
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The Witch's Children
Illustrated by Russell Ayto
(Orchard Books)
32pp, 978-1841215518, RRP £10.99, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
When the witch's troublesome children arrive at the park, all the animals run for cover, but a child playing by the lakeside is not so prescient and is changed into a frog. In an attempt to undo the damage, the children work their half-learned magic and soon every inhabitant of the park is caught up in a shape-shifting muddle. This is a short, schematic story in which the bright, anarchic, page-filling, cartoon-like pictures do as much work as the bold and simple text set into them. A very pleasing variant on the themes of mischief and magic.



