My Magical Witch

by Yujin Shin

Overview

Illustrator Yujin Shin invites little readers to follow My Magical Witch through an interactive board book adventure, with a wheel to spin and tabs to pull.
 
Meet the witch who brightens her world with spooky-sweet magic wherever she goes! Push, pull, spin, and slide your way through her enchanted land, with plenty of tricks and treats in store along the way.
 
On the front cover, readers can spin a wheel to animate the character, and holographic foil creates a truly impressive effect. With gentle rhymes, bright colors, and a bit of sparkle and shine, this novelty board book is sure to delight!
 
“Toddlers will readily manipulate the five smoothly performing interactive elements.” —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419744631
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Series:	My Magical Friends Series
Pages:	8
Product dimensions:	7.12(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.65(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Yujin Shin grew up surrounded by art, as her mother ran an art institute. Shin worked for Samsung Publishing and Sigong Junior Publishing for about ten years before embarking on a career in freelance illustration. She is the illustrator of the My Magical Friends series. She lives with her family in South Korea.

Editorial Reviews

"Toddlers will readily manipulate the five smoothly performing interactive elements. . ." 

— Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-08-31
Four green-faced witches fly through this durable board book looking for Halloween fun.

A turn of the notched wheel embedded in the cover page changes the sparkly stripes on a witch’s hat, cape, and broom. Three more witches join the fun inside. Though not identified by gender, all wear dresses. All the interactive elements are focused on the first witch, who wears fluffy orange hair in two pigtails. One slider simultaneously lifts a broom and plops a straight hat on top of that hair. Another slides the witch across the night sky. A second wheel shows the ingredients being added to a cauldron. A final slider magically produces three black cats. Two lines of (uncredited) rhyming text on each of the four double-page spreads hint at what the interactive element will reveal. While the text is conveniently placed in the same spot on each spread, the vocabulary is peppered with reach words for the toddler audience: “Off they swooped on whizzing brooms, / heading for the potions room.” Mice, pumpkins, spiderwebs, owls, brooms, bats, and other thematically appropriate objects and creatures scattered across the busy pages place the book firmly in the Halloween genre. Unnamed and primarily decorative, these seemingly arbitrary additions distract from the slight story thread. Toddlers will readily manipulate the five smoothly performing interactive elements; unfortunately, the text and pictures are not equally enticing.

Purchase for some temporary interactive Halloween fun. (Novelty board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews