Witchie Book Reviews & Finishing Projects

My mom sent me some Halloween art that I did as a kid, and one of my pumpkins had a poem attached. It was about witchies (and it was spelled that way too). In honor of the Halloween witchies, I'll tell you about 2 witchie books I read recently.

Whispering to Witches by Anna Dale
I have a new favorite book! We meet Joe on the train to his mom's house for the Christmas holiday. He was supposed to spend the holiday with his dad, but ended up being shipped off to mom and stepdad's house instead. Of course, things go wrong and he gets off at the wrong train station. On his way home he hurtles into a coven of witches and that's when his holidays start to get interesting. We never learn how old Joe is, but it doesn't matter. He's old enough to get into trouble and try to help the witches out of trouble, and flirt with a witch his age named Twiggy. Whispering to Witches is a middle grade British import with all the British words like tyre and trainer included. It's one adventure after another, and once again, it's a book I will read more than once (wow, I never do that, and now I've found 2 books this month to read multiple times - the other book is Liliy's Ghosts - I reviewed it on 10-14).

The Witch's Portraits by Lisa Geurdes Mullarkey
The Witch's Portraits is a deliciously evil witch story, which is refreshing in this age of thinking that witches are great and everyone wants to be one. It goes back to the time when kids told scary stories and spied on their neighbors, and what happens when they get caught snooping. The only problem I had with this book is the voice of the mc. It took me a while to get into the story. Once I did, I got used to the mc's voice. Then it only bothered me when the voice took over and it took me out of the story. But it's still a fun creepy story about the bad kind of witch.

Finishing Projects
I'm done with my illustration assignment!!!! It took me longer than I thought it would, but I like the pictures and the magazine editor did too - yay!