Jan Pienkowski was also famous for his pop-up books such as Haunted House, Dinner Time, Little Monsters and many more, but he also loved fairy tales and illustrated a fabulous collection of Polish folk tales, The Glass Mountain written by his lifetime partner David Walser, as was their edition of The Thousand and One Nights. Illustration: Jan Pieńkowski For beautiful illustrations and Halloween hijinks. Or, mid-primary aged children might love Pénélope Bagieu’s reimagining of Roald Dahl’s classic The Witches as a graphic novel for younger readers. Alternatively, shy children might love Wanda, the studious but shy witch in Wanda’s Words Got Stuck or in Bethan Woollvin’s Hansel & Gretel it’s Willow the witch who is the “goodie” and the naughty Hansel and Gretel that destroy everything.įor slightly older children, Perdita and Honor Cargill’s Diary of an Accidental Witch is written in a diary style and has plenty of humour alongside a plot that deals with bullying and starting a new school. If your kids loved Meg the witch with her wonky spells and her long black cloak, they might enjoy the long-running Winnie the Witch series by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul which features a zany witch protagonist getting up to all sorts of adventures.
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Helen Nicoll and BookTrust Lifetime Achievement winner Jan Pieńkowski created an iconic series of picture books in the 1970s and 80s about a witch whose spells always seem to go wrong, her stripy cat Mog and their friend Owl. Illustration: Jan Pieńkowski For wonderful witches. Here's our top selection of the stories to read after. It's impossible not to love Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski's accident-prone witch Meg and her best friends, Mog and Owl.
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