Elizabeth Hull Froman
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Published in 1965 and long out-of-print, Eba the Absent-Minded Witch is a book I would most likely never have stumbled across, were I not constantly on the hunt for new titles to include in my ongoing "witchy-witches" project. Although I usually seek out picture-books and early readers - the illustrative element of these titles is as important to me as the textual ones - the brevity of Elizabeth Hull Froman's tale (the book is mere 64 pages) led me to suppose that it was some kind of profusely illustrated chapter-book, and I requested it through interlibrary loan. As it happens, although the artwork from Dorothy Maas, in the form of rather intricate line drawings, has a certain quirky charm, it is also rather infrequent. The story itself left me feeling mostly indifferent. I enjoyed some of the witchy details - the idea of a "Cousinhood of Witches," or the fact that witches can have either cats or owls as familiars in this world, and that these familiars are what make broomstick-flying possible - but the narrative was a bit wordy for the intended audience, and it failed to involve me with the characters, in any significant way. I'm glad to have read it, of course, but don't strongly recommend it. Beginning chapter-book readers looking for vintage witchy tales would do better to seek out titles such as Jane Little's Spook (also published in 1965), Marian Frances' Witch on a Motorcycle (1972), or any one of Ruth Chew's many stories in this vein.… (meer)