My 14 month old son loves the flaps of creative made up bugs.
It’s great to see funky bugs rather than the usual barn animals etc. The spooky theme is also fun and different.
This book is NOT SUPPOSED to have, you know, spells and that kind of stuff. It is explaining a brief history of WitchCraft, not just New Age and Wicca. But it is a great explanation to non Pagans and people just interested in magic k making throughout the ages. OK? Besides all the Eyewitness books have excellent pictures, and good text. If you want to learn Wicca like me, read Exploring Wicca or Drawing Down the Moon . If you are merely curious about magic k making, READ THIS BOOK!!!
This book was meant to serve as part picture book, part mini packet of magical trivia. It was not marketed as an actual religious text of any stripe. I think that this book can be used to open up discussion between open minded parents and their kids. If a young person sees something in the book and asks, “what’s this?”, parents then have the opportunity to actually TALK to their kid s about something ancient and potentially meaningful.Sure, there are better books on the history and practice of magic and witchcraft; but this book is meant to spark an interest, not encompass an entire cirriculum.
This book is fascinating! The pages are repleat with exquisite photographs of actual artifacts. Covers a diverse sampling of witchcraft from around the world and through time. Blatantly honest and frighteningly factual.
We love the characters on Jakers
A perfect treat for your littlest one, filled with costume adorned baby faces.
William is attending the annual Halloween picnic at Mudsock Meadow and things are not going well. They are at the edge of Quicksand Bottoms and there is an eerie glow that people say is caused by the ghost of Titus Dinworthy, a miner who disappeared about one hundred years ago. When William says that the glow is due to swamp gas, he is laughed at.
The first event is the pumpkin carving contest, which he fails at miserably. At the fishing booth, he manages to tangle his line with Hester’s and she laughs at him saying “Peee youuuuu, smelly old William.” He tries to compete in the pumpkin spitting contest but is disqualified because he accidentally swallows the seed. In the tug o war, he slips and falls at Hester’s feet. He has high hopes in the dress up contest, but his old sheet costume is mediocre compared to the others.
However, the “ghost” reappears and when everyone else flees, William walks out and challenges the ghost. Even though he lands face first in the mud, he is a hero to everyone else and Hester sits by him and calls him her hero.
Beautifully illustrated and with a delightful moral, this story is an excellent one for young children. I strongly recommend it.