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Title: A Children's Classic
Review: I still have the original "Old Black Witch" that was published when I was a baby... My mother ordered many books from Parents' Magazine Press and they were all marvelous. This is a simple, charming book about a boy and his mother who buy a New England tea house and, while fixing it up for business, discover that they inherited OBW in the process. The dialogue is amusing, the illustrations are charming, you cannot help but like the sassy, sneaky OBW, and the bad-guys-get-it-in-the-end storyline always sits well with kids. I have looked for another copy all my adult life so I will have one for each child - we read it together every Halloween. Devlin books are treasures from an age before kids were pushed toward cynical and dark....They are simply charming and fun. Classics.
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