New Books for Pagan Kids

[windinthemaples]

Great news!

The Last Wild Witch a children's picture book written by Starhawk, has been released and is available for purchase. (You can buy it direct from the publisher here.) Here's what I heard about it:

The Last Wild Witch: An Eco-Fable for Kids and Other Free Spirits is a fantastically presented, earth-based eco-fable for children ages 4 -9 and interested adults. The wonderful text is presented as a delightful children's story in which children are the saviors of something wonderful and wild, the last wild witch in the forest, who stirs her magic brew in her cauldron and practices her songs and plays her drum. The secret seems to be that everyone needs a little bit of "wildness" inside them to be complete and happy. So in the end, things "were not so perfect in the no-longer perfect town. But they were better!" "The Last Wild Witch" is a wonderful way to teach tolerance, respect for nature, and valuing differences. The incredible surrealistic colored paintings are the ideal palate to complement this imaginative teaching tale.

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And that's not all the good news for pagan parents!

Magical Child Books, publishers of picture books for pagan children, just announced their next publication slated to come out in 2010:

Smoky and the Feast of Mabon written by Catherynne M. Valente.

This will be Magical Child's fifth book. The other four are:

An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
-a fully-illustrated year in the life of one pagan girl as she experiences the sabbats and explains what it means to be a Wiccan.

Aidan's First Full Moon Circle written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
-the story of Aidan, a young boy from a solitary family, as he joins the larger spiritual community for his first full moon celebration.

Watchers written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
-a suspenseful bedtime story with a sweet ending

Rabbit's Song written by S.J. Tucker and Trudy Herring, illustrated by W. Lyon Martin.
-a trickster animal tale

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This booklove news has made my day. The world needs (desperately!) well-written pagan children's books.

What are your favorite pagan (or unintentionally pagan) children's books?

For Mabon, I love Jake Swamp's Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message because it reads as a prayerful recitation of all the things in nature and spirit to be thankful for each day and it is gloriously illustrated by Erwin Printup, Jr.

Comments

[mrsbrewer.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love Mrs. Beggs and the Wizard. I don't know if it would be considered Pagan or not, but it's awesome and has monsters and wizards and stuff.