Name: Suppose You Met a Witch By Ed Emberley
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Suppose You Met a Witch Summary

Suppose You Met a Witch by Ed Emberley

Reissue of a 1973 classic

Would you like to meet a witch? What would happen if she popped you into a sack and stole you away? In illustrating Ian Serrailliers striking poem, Ed Emberley shows us what took place when such a thing happened to two clever and resourceful children. Anthology is thrilled to present 1973s Suppose You Met a Witch, a beautiful and wondrous book that lets us all experience what it must be like to be under a witchs spell.

Suppose You Met a Witch Reviews

"His flamboyant art nouveau swirls, the sweeping curls and marble-like sea-foamy flames are gracefully spectacular, and his green, gulping witch quite lives up to Serraillier's description of Grimblegrum as "all willow-gnarled and whiskered head to toe." Most important, his sensuous ostentation is totally in keeping with the dramatic transformations of the Grimm-based story and the compressed, onomotopoetic extravagance of Serraillier's musical verse. The scene can change from the witch's gross candyland villa with its "licorice-beaded door" and "glassy glacier-minted floor" to the pale, almost imperceptible loveliness of two swans (really a boy and girl who have changed themselves to avoid the witch's clutches) gliding "serene and cool" on a "heaven-painted pond" to a tangled, shadowed, thorny thicket in which Grimblegrum dances to a magic flute shrieking "tickle-me-thistle and prickle-de-dee" while the children escape. For those who are fed up with benign cookie-baking witches, Grimblegrum "astride her broom o' beech" or "galloping, gulping 'Gobble you yet, I'll gobble you yet!' " should prove a high-powered Halloween read-aloud." - Kirkus Review, 1973

About Ed Emberley

Ed Emberley is the illustrator and author of over eighty books, including the bestselling Go Away, Big Green Monster! and his enormously popular "Drawing Book series. He has received many awards and accolades, including a Caldecott Honor in 1967 for One Wide River to Cross and a Caldecott Medal in 1968 for Drummer Hoff.

Ian Serraillier (19121994) was a renowned English author and poet especially known for his childrens books. His wartime adventure story The Silver Sword (1956) is a beloved classic, and has been adapted twice for television. In 1948, he founded the New Windmill Series for Heinemann Educational Books with his wife, Anne, which he would co-edit for decades.

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NGR9781944860561

ISBN 13

9781944860561

ISBN 10

1944860568

Title

Suppose You Met a Witch by Ed Emberley

Author

Ed Emberley

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Anthology Editions

Year published

2023-09-19

Number of pages

32

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N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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Suppose You Met a Witch Ed Emberley

Suppose You Met a Witch by Ed Emberley

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