![]() While Selimene is calm and collected, Carlota has a similar temperament to her niece, which allows for some nice toe-to-toe, quick-fire conversations that remain highly entertaining throughout the book’s duration. Yet she soon finds comfort with these two older women, and they all learn they have more in common than first perceived. Effie struggles with being the new kid in school and making a new life with her aunts, quite clearly grieving when she arrives at her new home. Sophie Escabasse’s The Witches of Brooklyn packs a ton of energy, wit, and verve into its pages as she creates a magical world that is not contrived but instead feels fresh, sweet, and touching. ![]() ![]() By profession, they are well-respected ‘naturalists’ - or herbalists - who help people through the use of plants, but more than that, they are also witches who know so much more than people perceive. Witches of Brooklyn Sophie Escabasse (Writer and Illustrator)Īfter she is sent to live with her aunts after her mother’s death, Effie learns that they are more than they claim to be. ![]() “Young children don’t perceive reality the way adults do…which gives them real creative freedom…and that freedom can lead to the best kinds of magic.” ![]()
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