octospark 's review for:

The Wednesday Witch by Ruth Chew

4.0

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I read all the Ruth Chew 'magic' and 'witches' books when I was a little kid. I checked them all out of the library and read them in a day or two. Recently, I remembered how much I'd loved them as a child and so I started hunting them down and buying them one-by-one. 'The Wednesday Witch' is the first of many and is a perfect little domestic magic fantasy chapter book about a little girl who befriends a witch that flies around on a vacuum cleaner. Right there, author Chew was inverting the tropes, and many other clever uses of pun, and spells, and domestic life in the late 60s are present in this book. There are many feministic metaphors in this that of course, I had no clue about when I was like 8 years old reading these ebooks, but these many years on, you can really see how Ruth Chew was subtly winking at the moms and aunts who probably read these books to their young girls....