Toe of frog, anyone?

October 30, 1:06 PMSan Jose Young Adult Literature ExaminerBarbara Bell

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A witch and her broom...it's a beautiful thing.

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“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”

While the three witches in ‘Macbeth’ certainly knew their ingredients on how to make a hell-broth, instead I’ve got a list of some witch-y reading. (No hell-broth recipes at this time.)

• Witch Child, by Celia Rees
• Witch, by Christopher Pike
• The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
• The Witches, by Roald Dahl
• The Witch’s Boy, Michael Gruber
• Raven’s Gate, by Anthony Horowitz
• The Magic Circle, by Donna Jo Napoli
• The Magic in Manhattan series (I know I already mentioned it with the audiobook version, but it bears repeating.)
• The Sweep series, by Cate Tiernan
• The Balefire series, by Cate Tiernan
• The Witch Season series, by Jeff Mariotte

Happy reading! Try not to spook yourself too much!