Ruth Chew
Birth date: April 08, 1920
Died: May 13, 2010
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For more reviews, check out my blog Craft-CycleI remember loving this book growing up and rereading it multiple times. I found my old copy while cleaning out my mother's house and thought I'd give it another re-read.Overall, I liked the book. I love all of the weird twists and turns it takes. The ba...
This is my third Ruth Chew book. They have all been pretty similar: a couple of pleasant but very forgettable kids have some fantastical but very mild adventures.I read this book last night and have already forgotten the names of the two kids: something common and Anglophone like Susie and Paul. Whi...
I had only vague but happy memories of reading this book as a little girl, remembering the slightly incompetent witch who rode a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom and her talking black cat who helped a little girl with her homework. Rereading this as an adult was a pleasure, though the story is cert...
Read this first when I was 10 and back then, this was a pretty magical read for me. Now I'm 25 and it still brings me to a magical place. Amazing. :) This is actually one of the books that started me on the right path of reading.
I remember reading this as a little girl. It was one of my favorites and I read it many, many times. Now after being out of print for many years they are being reissued and at first I was a little worried. Would they hold up or would I be sadly disappointed and my memories spoiled? Well, I can r...