You may have forgotten about 'The Witches' Supermarket,' but one look at the illustrations and your childhood will come flooding back.
There are few things I loved more as a new mom than building out my child’s library. Now that my oldest is 10 and she’s gained two baby sisters over the years, our, and was just about to check out when I saw it and my entire childhood twinkled in front of me:It was the cover that pulled me in, and suddenly — even though I couldn’t remember my parents buying me Halloween-specific books — the memories came flooding back.
But it’s the delightful illustrations and all the sweet details that really set this story apart from so many other Halloween books. It’s magical and obviously about witches, but the book isn’t trying to be some kind of cutesy, trendy thing. You can tell Meddaugh didn’t just decide to write a Halloween book and then pick witches out of the many Halloween characters — the book is written clearly as an answer to how witches live among us.
In a world where so few freedoms are bestowed upon kids — and when you try to give them a little bit extra, you’re just setting yourself up for judgment — it’s so fun to read a book where the kid gets to do her own thing. It’s not always realistic, of course, but reading this back in the early ‘90s and rereading it now gives mealso has all of those little Halloween tropes you love without being an obvious kind of picture book.
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