During our journey through The Woodlands cemetery in Philadelphia for mini-Mutter Museum display and walking tour, Melissa (lawngirl) and I also enjoyed the All Hallows’ Read book swap, where I (of course) happened upon the only space-themed book there: Don Freeman’s ‘Space Witch’ from 1959!
I didn’t want to give the whole book away with tons of pictures - which are illustrated wonderfully by the way - so I picked the best ones and below, provide you with an excerpt/summary:
It was Halloween, and Tilly Ipswitch was restless. Where on Earth was there any excitement for a self-respecting witch? She would stir something up herself! And she did - a big caldron of remarkable leftovers.It turned out (after some abracadabra chanted over it) to be a fantastic plastic, just perfect for the space ship she planned to build. Tilly and Kit, her cat, set off to scare the wits out of the inhabitants of other planets. But what a time they had! Kit was cross because there was no milk at all in the Milky Way, and just everything went wrong.
At last the two weary, discouraged travelers came back again to their own mountain peak, where they made the biggest discovery of all: for real spine-tingling adventure, there’s no space like home!
#AllHallowsRead encourages everyone this Halloween season to share a scary book with another by reading, donating, or swapping.
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