My grateful thanks to Amy Turnbull in Luath Press for inviting me to participate in the blog tour for the children’s book ABBOTSFORD’s good witch By Alasdair Hutton illustrated by Bob Dewar. It is a pleasure to help close the tour sharing my review today.
ABBOTSFORD’s good witch It was published by Luath on November 1, 2024 and is available for purchase here.
ABBOTSFORD’s good witch
Meet Morag, a good heart witch in a magical adventure in Abbotsford’s delighted forests!
When the evil leader of his coven plots to kidnap local children, Morag must use their magic and courage to stop the evil scheme. With a race against time and surrounded by darkness, Morag intends to rescue children and bring peace back to Abbotsford.
Will you succeed in overcoming the evil powers and saving the day?
Find out in this exciting story of courage and magic!
My Review of the Good Witch of Abbotsford
The young Morag Witch has a evil plot to stop.
Influenced by the cover design of ABBOTSFORD’s good witch I confess that I had been waiting for a simple and simple story about the triumph of good over evil. However, this story was darker than expected and felt very part of the tradition of fairy stories and morality stories, based on well -established witches and references of stories and fables such as sleeping beauty and Pied Piper. This has the effect of making the book feel well punished in children’s folk and classical literature.
With a lot of blank between paragraphs and super illustrations by Bob Dewar, ABBOTSFORD’s good witch It is a book that would be perfect for young readers who move to chapter books. Those at the youngest end of the age range can benefit from an adult reading with them or with them, because it may seem a bit scary and vocabulary is a challenge sometimes. That is in no way a criticism. Alasdair Hutton does not sponsor his audience, but presents new words in context that the vocabulary expands.
The plot is fast and exciting for young readers with considerable consideration of good and evil and much danger and danger that is resolved well. I thought he was inspired to have Morag in contact with his grandmother instead of a father, because this gives status to children than in traditional family units while respecting major generations. Morag is a super character and feels even more realistic because it is not reluctant to some tortuous behavior, for the right reasons, allowing children to appreciate that good and evil are not always clear, but that being kind to others is always preferable.
ABBOTSFORD’s good witch It is a story that Ks2 children will enjoy particularly, either as a class or house reader, or by independent reading.
About Alasdair Hutton
Alasdair Hutton has been the voice of the tattoo since 1992. He has been writing and telling stories for children since he was in primary school. In addition to being a writer and narrator of the real military tattoo of Edinburgh, he has written and introduced hundreds of events and concerts in Scotland and worldwide. He won a Trust Charitable Trust Writing Award by David Thomas for one of his short stories and wrote the story of the 15th Voluntary Battalion of Scotland of the parachute regiment to which he belonged for 22 years. He worked for the BBC in Scotland and Northern Ireland and has been a member of the European Parliament for Southern Scotland and coordinator of the Scottish edges Council. He lives in the Scottish city of Korders of Kelso and writes small stories for his granddaughter Aline who lives far in the United States.
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