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Fairy Tale Frankie and the Tricky Witch

by Greg GORMLEY
illus. by Steven Lenton. 32p. S. & S./Aladdin. Aug. 2016. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781481466264.
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PreS-K—Frankie loves to read fairy tales. One day she awakens to find her favorite fairy-tale characters asking for her help in hiding them. Readers will be just as puzzled as Frankie, wondering why the characters are so eager to have the boy's help. The answer will become more obvious at the conclusion, with a reference to a familiar game for an audience of this young age. Colorful illustrations show cartoon characters (including a green witch) with distinctive pop-out eyes of black pupils on a circle of white. Lenton employs a decorative technique of designing one spread to be turned to read vertically. The changes in text and font size add variety, as do the lines of sentences that float by, showing the witch's movement on her broom from page to page. Nonetheless, the story is unsubstantial and unmemorable.
VERDICT This is a supplemental, nonscary book that could be used for Halloween as well as other times throughout the year.
Reviewed by Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA , Sep 01, 2016

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