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The magic circle by donna jo napoli7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “A work of great strength and powerful emotion, written with immediacy and intensity, filled with beauty and terror and pervading sense of compassion that must touch young and old. “A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed novel.” - School Library Journal, starred review But demons' voices scream in her head: “Eat them!” How can she?. They are such good children, such delicious, beautiful children. ![]() The Ugly One longs to take care of sturdy, sensible Gretel and her young brother Hansel. Then one day she hears the footsteps she dreads. All she wants is to forget - the she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. From the author of Zel, Stones in Water, and The Prince of the Pond.ĭeep in the woods lives the old witch called Ugly One. In the way she limned the age-old tales in Zel and The Magic Circle, and re-created their characters in a startlingly new way, Donna Jo Napoli, with Richard. ![]()
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