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The witch family by eleanor estes6/8/2023 My kids enjoyed imitating the characters as well, and they got very into drawing their own pictures of Old Witch and the rest of the family. Old Witch's catchphrase, "Oh glory be!" is really fun to say in a witchy voice, and I also found myself really enjoying Amy's voice too. This challenge aside, however, the story is really fun to read aloud. In the end, I let the audiobook take over for me for several chapters, and when I did read a section myself, I just read the words and let the kids assume they were spelled. As his pieces of dialogue got longer, however, it became too much. I liked to adhere exactly to the text when I read aloud, and in the beginning, spelling Malachi's short sentences was no big deal. There is a character called Malachi, who is a "spelling bee" and he spells everything he says. Like the characters in the story, they, too, like to make up stories together, and they seemed utterly fascinated by the idea of imagined characters coming into the real world.įor me, though I liked the concept of the story, reading it aloud was tedious. This was our Halloween read-aloud this year, and it was a huge hit with my oldest two daughters, M., age 7 and C., age 5.
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