Photos from our Saturday walk. We picked chestnuts: not only were they pretty, shiny and pristine, with not a maggot in sight and hardly any mud on them, but they were also delicious.
And Little Witch Hazel is a fantastic book for children. Grandkid loves the stories & I like the underpinning “hippy“ outlook on life - kind, understanding and tolerant (including of leg hair on women 😅)
Bought this as a gift for one of my nieces last year and was very tempted to keep it for myself. The art is wonderful and the story really charming. I was enchanted.
#OminousOctober #Enchanting
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Could be a really awesome tattoo...
Love how rich and warm the colours are.
pickLittle Witch Hazel is who I want to be when I grow up, a chubby lady with hairy legs and a big pointy red hat living in a cozy little house in the forest helping her fellow creatures. There are four stories in the book, one for each season. They all evoke the season so viscerally. The illustrations are sooo beautiful and full of tiny gem details (like a little elf breastfeeding a baby floating on a leaf in a pond).
Anyone else on the Storygraph app?
I just opened my account! caseythecanadianlesbrarian is my username as usual.
Let's be bookish friends on a book tracking platform that isn't owned by Amazon (*cough*Goodreads*cough*) and was founded by a Black woman!
Here I am: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/caseythecanadianlesbrarian
pickThis was such a great find! Love my local library 📚
I bought this book for my kid and we love it so far! (It has four stories, one for each season, and we've just read the spring one). Beautiful illustrations and whimsical fairytale like.
pickPhoebe Wahl is one of my favorite artists & writers. Everything she creates is so full of love & weirdness & whimsy. I loved Little Witch Hazel with her hairy legs & her odd neighbors & her grumpy attitude & her big, caring heart. I loved reluctantly, lazy summer days & spooky fall evenings. I loved full circle moments of care in the spring & winter. This is so dear & lovely. Grown ups should read pictures books forever.
Author/illustrator Phoebe Wahl follows the eponymous Little Witch Hazel through the four seasons in this delightful picture storybook, depicting a woodland world full of enchantment and friendship. I sought this one out (and had it recommended to me) largely on the strength of my interest in witchy picture-books, but having now read it, I think Hazel is less of a witch, in the traditional sense, and more of an elf or woodland sprite.
#GratefulHarvest Day 22: Little Witch Hazel looks like she is carrying a good #harvest. Overdrive ebook find. Review is forthcoming.
pickThis charming illustrated collection follows the titular Little Witch Hazel through the four seasons as she minds a wayward egg, takes a pleasure cruise on a raft, investigates a haunted stump, and heals the ailments of her neighbors. Phoebe Wahl‘s illustrations are just enchanting and your time in Little Witch Hazel‘s world will warm you from head to heart to toe—all while making you fall a little more in love with our own world, in every season.
Working on my TBR for #Screamathon 2021. 🖤
I‘ve got another mini-list of alternates but I think the 8 pictured will be my core.
Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest | 
