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Heckedy Peg
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bookshelves: 1987, art-lovely, award-various, bage-children, genre-beginner, genre-fantasy, myth-folktale-fable, sub-food, sub-trees-forest, want-to-own, women, z-audrey-wood
Jun 24, 2020
bookshelves: 1987, art-lovely, award-various, bage-children, genre-beginner, genre-fantasy, myth-folktale-fable, sub-food, sub-trees-forest, want-to-own, women, z-audrey-wood
This feels like either a Grimm fairytale or an Anderson fairytale, but maybe Audrey just wrote it to be that way.
The artwork is beautiful. It looks like Renaissance artwork with light/dark contrasts and it reminds me of her King Biggood book, which is amazing and you need to read that story.
A mother has 7 children and she names them after days of the week, why not right. The mother goes to the market with a warning not to touch fire or let in strangers, but strangers are crafty, especially old witches, so the children let them in and this starts the story. Heckedy Peg is an evil witch, because why not make witches evil, right? (I really don't like an evil witch archetype, it's so patriarchal)
The witch turns them into food and whisks them away to eat them at her cave home. The mother gets help from a bird and goes after them. She is able to rescue her children and I love how she does that. It's a great story device and that one piece could have been drawn out just a little bit more. It's over fast, but it's a great moment. It makes the story worth it.
Nephew thought this was a little spooky. He thought it was good and he was glad the children were saved. He thought the witch should have paid more. He gave this 3 stars.
The artwork is beautiful. It looks like Renaissance artwork with light/dark contrasts and it reminds me of her King Biggood book, which is amazing and you need to read that story.
A mother has 7 children and she names them after days of the week, why not right. The mother goes to the market with a warning not to touch fire or let in strangers, but strangers are crafty, especially old witches, so the children let them in and this starts the story. Heckedy Peg is an evil witch, because why not make witches evil, right? (I really don't like an evil witch archetype, it's so patriarchal)
The witch turns them into food and whisks them away to eat them at her cave home. The mother gets help from a bird and goes after them. She is able to rescue her children and I love how she does that. It's a great story device and that one piece could have been drawn out just a little bit more. It's over fast, but it's a great moment. It makes the story worth it.
Nephew thought this was a little spooky. He thought it was good and he was glad the children were saved. He thought the witch should have paid more. He gave this 3 stars.
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1987
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art-lovely
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award-various
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bage-children
June 24, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-beginner
June 24, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-fantasy
June 24, 2020
– Shelved as:
myth-folktale-fable
June 24, 2020
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sub-food
June 24, 2020
– Shelved as:
sub-trees-forest
June 24, 2020
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want-to-own
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women
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z-audrey-wood
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Jun 24, 2020 08:03AM
I must have read this alond or one hundred times to my three children. Always new details like the little blackbird to see in the illustrations. And it only dawned on me years later - Heckedy = Hec-a-te. I adore this book.
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Karen wrote: "I must have read this alond or one hundred times to my three children. Always new details like the little blackbird to see in the illustrations. And it only dawned on me years later - Heckedy = Hec..."Karen, Great memories. I didn't make the connection of Hecate so I appreciate that. Have a good week.
