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Book SynopsisReissue 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 Serraillier’s 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 1973’s
Suppose You Met a Witch, a beautiful and wondrous book that lets us all experience what it must be like to be under a witch’s spell.
Trade Review"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
