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Only a witch can fly.

 

But one little girl wants to fly—more than anything. So on a special night, with the moon shining bright and her cat by her side, she gathers herself up, she grips her broom tight, and she tries. And she fails. And she’s brave. And she tries again. Until . . .

 

Utterly enchanting, New York Times best-selling author Alison McGhee’s lyrical language and Taeeun Yoo’s transcendent linoleum block prints create a bewitching tale about finding one’s own path that will send your heart soaring.

 

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Overview

Only a witch can fly.

 

But one little girl wants to fly—more than anything. So on a special night, with the moon shining bright and her cat by her side, she gathers herself up, she grips her broom tight, and she tries. And she fails. And she’s brave. And she tries again. Until . . .

 

Utterly enchanting, New York Times best-selling author Alison McGhee’s lyrical language and Taeeun Yoo’s transcendent linoleum block prints create a bewitching tale about finding one’s own path that will send your heart soaring.

 

Only a Witch Can Fly is a 2010 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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On Halloween night a young girl longs to fly. Lured by the moonlight and the star-filled sky, encouraged by dark Cat purring "soar," and urged by a heart that tells her to do it now, she slips from her house and soars from the front porch... into a pile of pumpkins. "Poor you, poor, poor," hums black Cat, but the moon and the stars so high still call. She picks up her broom and "one, two, three, four" into the sky she soars. Higher and higher, earthbound no more, she holds tight to her broom and floats past the stars and turns to the heavens to soar past the moon. "For only a witch can fly past the moon. Only a witch can fly." Written as a sestina, a poetry form that originated in the twelfth century, the words and pictures evoke the magic of Halloween and a little girl's longing to fly. At times it seems as if the author's need to fit words to the sestina form makes some stanzas awkward and confusing. Younger readers or listeners may find the story somewhat difficult to follow, although the illustrations wonderfully move the tale along. These superb linoleum block prints with hints of another time fill each double-page spread. Reviewer: Anita Barnes Lowen
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The effortless quiet of McGhee's words is beautifully matched by Yoo's pictures—linoleum block prints done in rapturously moody greens and browns. As the girl tries and fails and tries again, she summons the help of a black cat, an owl and her little brother. It's clear she'll need some magic, too. I won't spoil the ending, but it's fair to say that there's more than enough magic in these pages for her, for young readers and for their parents
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312375034
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
  • Publication date: 8/4/2009
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 603,246
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: AD950L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Alison McGhee is the award-winning author of numerous books for children and adults, including the New York Times best-selling picture books Somebody, illustrated by Peter Reynolds, and A Very Brave Witch, illustrated by Harry Bliss, and the novel, Shadow Baby, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a Today Show pick. McGhee is a professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University, and a founding member of Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Minnesota with her family.

Taeeun Yoo received the Founders Award—for the most promising new talent of the year—from the Society of Illustrators for her debut picture book The Little Red Fish, for which Publishers Weekly in a starred review raved, “exhilarating visual images . . . shutting the book feels like awakening from a dream.” She also illustrated stunning new covers for Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time quintet. Born and raised in Korea, Yoo came to New York City to study illustration at The School of Visual Arts where she earned her MFA. She lives in New York City.

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Only a Witch Can Fly


By McGhee, Alison

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Copyright © 2009 McGhee, Alison
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ISBN: 9780312375034

If you were a young witch, who had not yet flown,And the dark night sky held a round yellow moon and the moon shone her light on the silent broomand the dark cat beside you crooned, Soar, would you too begin to cry,because of your longing to fly? Only a witch can fly.

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