“Witches’ brooms don’t last forever.
On very rare occasions, however, a broom can lose its power without warning, and fall, with its passenger, to the earth below . which is just what happened one cold autumn night many years ago.” So begins The Widow’s witches Broom, the gentle, strangely captivating party game by Chris Van Allsburg, who received Caldecott medals for Jumanji and The Polar Express. The story gets under way when the lonely widow Minna Shaw finds a wounded, sky fallen witch in her vegetable garden. The witch disappears before dawn, but leaves her old, presumably defunct broom behind. Minna begins to use it around the house and finds that “it was no better or worse than brooms she’d used before.” However, one morning, Minna sees the broom sweeping by itself! Opportunistically, she trains it to chop wood and fetch water.
When the neighbors find out about this “wicked, wicked thing” posing as an innocent, hardworking broom , they accost the widow and demand that the broom be burned. Are they successful in separating …
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