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The Witch's Curse
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Keith McGowan is the author of The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children, which received glowing reviews and honors. A former teacher, he currently lives in the third district of Vienna, Austria.
YOKO TANAKA is the illustrator of several books, including Sparrow Girl. She lives in Thailand.

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"A well-done continuation of the story that leaves readers wanting to hear from this brother and sister again." --School Library Journal "McGowan here creatively interweaves aspects of Grimms' Brother and Sister, blending classic fairy-tale and contemporary elements, magic, suspense, and vibrant, diversely drawn kid protagonists into another edgy, absorbing read." --Booklist "Having narrowly avoided becoming dinner in The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children (2009), sibs Sol and Connie face another folkloric fate in this equally gothic sequel." --Kirkus "A semisweet literary treat . . . Seriously cerebral humor that will delight and challenge the inquisitive youngster." --The New Yorker on The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children "Fans of Lemony Snicket's best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events should love Keith McGowan's beguiling debut." --USA Today on The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children

Gr 4-6-This sequel to The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children (Holt, 2009) is an exciting adventure. Sol, 11, always wanted to be athletic, but being turned into a deer was not how he envisioned becoming a better runner. Having just escaped from the evil witch who attempted to eat them, he and his younger sister, Connie, are once again under the influence of evil, this time in the form of a witch who feeds children potions and turns them into animals. She keeps these stuffed animals in a cabin and manipulates them into different poses. This is where she also keeps David, who is cursed to hunt the animal-shaped children against his will. Sol and Connie are his newest prey. But they have an ally, a wood thrush sent by the only person the children know they can trust, an old woman who possesses the power to control nature and animals. With the help of the thrush and her own strength in fighting the potion that is turning her into a rabbit, Connie fights the hunter, rescues her brother, and returns both of them to their human form. The added perspectives of the All Creatures Manager in the town they left and the journal of the hunter, tortured by his dreadful task, as well as the squabbling of the two siblings make this story a bit more complex than just a good-versus-evil tale. A well-done continuation of the story that leaves readers wanting to hear from this brother and sister again.-Clare A. Dombrowski, Amesbury Public Library, MA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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