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...
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...
My absolute favorite of Ruth Chew's books, I must have checked this out a dozen times when I was little. Reading it as an adult is a very different experience, because not much happens. The children buy a Build-Anything Kit for cheap (the set is marked down because of a dent in the box) and discover...
With their parents off in Europe, and stuck with a mean babysitter who's more interested in their baby siblings then them, Joe and Kathleen run away from the city and head to their usual summer vacation spot.I think this might be the only Ruth Chew book which doesn't have any magic in it. But I stil...
Two little friends, Katy and Louise, find that Katy's aunt Martha's stored possessions have some unusual properties. They have some fun (but not too naughty) adventures, get in a little (but never very serious) trouble, and provide a bit of minor help to others. An easy but very engrossing read, gre...
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