Volume V Number 18 . . . . Review by Harriet Zaidman. But everyone saw, as they helped her unpack, that Arabelle's cat wasn't standard or black. Blotchy and splotchy from tail-tip to head, two paws in purple, one amber, one red. A jumble of crimsons and blues in a blur, orange and yellow and limy-green fur.
Poems are wonderful ways to get kids thinking, moving, giggling and jiggling.
Make that poem funny and about a silly topic, and the fun is doubled. Catmagic is a book of rhyme and rhythm about displaced witches and a cat who find a happy solution to their problem. Loris Lesynski has written a comic verse that will delight young children. The author of Boy Soup, or When Giant Caught Cold and Ogre Fun, she displays consistent strength throughout Catmagic as a children's poet and illustrator. Izzy are ready to retire and find a vacancy at the Witches' Retirement Home.