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When he follows the witch twins Gurgla and Blog home from school, Zack almost becomes the final ingredient in their alphabet soup. No library descriptions found.
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Originally published in hardcover as The Alphabet Soup, and then in paperback as Bat Brain Stew, this witchy picture-book was expatriate Czech author/illustrator Mirko Gabler's first published title. It pairs an imaginatively magical tale about two little witch children going to school and making a disturbingly disgusting brew with a classic alphabet story structure. The accompanying illustrations are colorful and accentuate both the grotesquerie and the sense of humor in the text. As someone who has an interest in witchy picture-books - they're a pet project of mine - I found this engaging, but also on the gross side of funny, for my taste, and fairly text-heavy, for a picture-book. I'd recommend it to older picture-book readers - six and seven years old, perhaps - who enjoy humorous witchy fare. ( )