Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest

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Summer: The Lazy Day sees our witchy heroine attempting to get some work done, only to finally give in to the relaxation and pleasure-seeking of her peers. Through all the seasons Little Witch Hazel has adventures in the forest helping animals and friends. I am obsessed with this picture book and the adorable chubby main character who is now my life inspiration.The quiet but insistent rejection of conventional norms is both cheerworthy and effortlessly integrated, and the result is a story that can sit happily next to any classic fairy story as well as contemporary picture books directly addressing physical differences.

In Spring: The Orphaned Egg, Hazel cares for an abandoned egg, raising Otis the owl when he hatches. Phoebe graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration and currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.i read all of them back to back and was weeping a bit at how they all folded together, and how dreamy and precious each storyline was paired with the cozy art style. The only question I wanted answered was why was this witch so little, and the book does not address that at all.

Of course, I suppose one could argue that the figure of the witch initially does come from the Wise Woman herbalist/healer archetype, so perhaps Hazel is a witch after all. Liked the story well enough but when I looked at other books by the author I came across her colour in book.Woven with themes of friendship, seasonality, and community, this book has beautiful illustrations that are somehow at the same time simple and detailed. The reader follows Hazel through each season and is able to see her home, the forest, and all of her neighbors in different settings.