PUBLISHER: Dial Books, 9/1993GENRE: Fiction/Children's Folk Tales
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MY GRADE: A
FROM PUBLISHER: A retelling of a Celtic tale in which two cats set out to save children in a Highlands village who have been put under a sleeping spell by three wicked witches.
MY THOUGHTS: I really like this very dark story. This is another children's story that has violence in it. It has twenty-one pages of text and the other pages are illustrated in color. Some of the illustrations are beautiful. Two cats, Rory and Tam, are the heroes. Three green-eyed witches are putting eternal sleeping spells on children via singing mice. Tam and Rory are given magical powers from Granny Pine's magic willow stick, shown below, so they set out to stop the witches. They spy on them in their home through their peephole and witness them turn into huge black cats. They follow the cats into the forest and things get violent.
See some images from inside the book here. Below are my two favorites.
