A review by pedanther
Mists and Magic by Dorothy Edwards

fast-paced

3.5

This book is an anthology of short stories and poems for children, so it should be noted that I'm coming to it several decades late. I probably would have enjoyed it a lot at the target age, but from here I found the stories mostly short and slight, and in many cases was already familiar with the element the story was relying on for novelty. There were a few that I thought stood out, in particular "Christmas Crackers" by Marjorie Darke and the editor's own contributions, "Night Walk", "Witch at Home", and "The Girl Who Boxed an Angel"; in retrospect, all stories where the author had put some extra work into characterisation and the protagonist wasn't just A Generic English Child. "Night Walk" is apparently an extract from a novel, which I'm now interested in reading the rest of.