What the Witch Left

This is a totally amazing book about how two girls are snooping around in their mom's stuff and find magical things like a pair of 7 league boots and a box that ends up with lost items in it. Really, the box that finds lost things was the only part I remembered well from reading this one in my childhood. There's an entire chapter on using the boots to take a trip to Mexico that now comes across as really, really culturally insensitive where they feed a girl named Pilar cookies and soda which she's never had before. Pilar rides a donkey named Pepe and weaves baskets. However, it was written in the 70s and so gets a pass because magic and how it goes wrong is totally hilarious. A modern classic, really.

This book has been one of my favorites for a while. This book is both a mystery and an adventure. I would love to tell you details about this book, but don't want to give too much away. Katy and Louise find a drawer full of stuff from Katy's aunt, who is a witch. These items have special powers and the girls go on adventures using these items. I love this book so much I have read it 5 times. I would recommend it to my friends.

Ruth Chew's books have held up through the test of time very well. I just re-read this childhood favorite and enjoyed it just as much now as then.

I loved reading Ruth Chew books as a girl, and I wish she got more attention---I rarely see her mentioned anymore. This was my favorite of all her books, and I read it over and over. Two girls find a drawer full of magic items that were left at one of their houses long ago---7 league boots that can take them far away in a few steps, gloves that make you do anything well and so on. I longed and longed for those items to be real and to be in my possession!

Out-of-print books are usually lost to the past, but lucky for the reading public, Ruth Chew's Chapter books are being published simultaneously as paperbacks and hardcovers with original cover art. Random House is to be congratulated for bringing ten ofRuth Chew's favorite books back to our reading world and the first two are "No Such Thing as a Witch", and What the Witch Left".

Finding a key to Katy's mom's dresser, Katy and her friend, Louise, discover items for dress-up. Unusual circumstances began to happen, and the girls wonder if some of the clothes are magic. Read this lovely book out of the past and smile as I did through each of the adventures. I heartily recommend this reprint of a class to all ages.

I loved this book as a child and found it to be as charming as I remembered.

Oh such nostalgic numminess. The very inaccurate school Thanksgiving play unfortunately ruins it for today's kids (unless parents are willing to discuss history w/ their children), but I love everything Chew wrote and am so glad to find the ones that were not avl to me when I was a kid. I love thrift stores!