Review of the Day: Little Witch Hazel, A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl

Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
By Phoebe Wahl
Tundra Books
$24.99
ISBN: 9780735264892
On shelves now.

I don’t think anyone really understands what “subversive” means anymore. At least not when we talk about books for kids. There was a time when children’s books, particularly picture books, could go a little wild and adults were the ones left shocked. Whether it was the horror of Slugs by David Greenberg and Victoria Chess, the unapologetic nudity of Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitche...