Elizabeth George Speare

Among Elizabeth George Speare's wonderful works are two Newbery Awardwinning novels, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow.

by Elizabeth Speare

I'm currently rereading The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare which is an all-time favorite for me.

Among Elizabeth

Among Elizabeth George Speare's wonderful works are two Newbery Awardwinning novels, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow.

a book

The strange thing is that they are both the same book: THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George Speare.

the story of Katherine “Kit” Tyler who leaves Katherine “Kit” Tyler's home in Barbados to live with Katherine “Kit” Tyler's Aunt Rachel and Uncle Matthew in the Connecticut Colony

The Newbery Award-winner of 1959, The Witch of Blackbird Pond is the story of Katherine “Kit” Tyler who leaves Katherine “Kit” Tyler's home in Barbados to live with Katherine “Kit” Tyler's Aunt Rachel and Uncle Matthew in the Connecticut Colony.

Robin Hatcher

Robin Hatcher wrote one of my favorite children’s novels, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

of Connecticut Colonial history in Elizabeth Speare

Adults re-read (or read for the first time) classic favorites from youth, this month a locally flavored tale of Connecticut Colonial history in Elizabeth Speare’s The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Ray Bradbury

The author is Ray Bradbury; the witch, Mary Bradbury.

Demetria Simmons George

The next year Demetria Simmons George completed Demetria Simmons George's second historical novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, which won numerous awards including the Newbery Medal.

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood was a British author of horror, fantasy, and weird fiction whose work has been praised by the likes of H. P. Lovecraft.

the story of Katherine “Kit” Tyler who leaves Katherine “Kit” Tyler's home in Barbados to live with Katherine “Kit”

The Newbery Award-winner of 1959, The Witch of Blackbird Pond is the story of Katherine “Kit” Tyler who leaves Katherine “Kit” Tyler's home in Barbados to live with Katherine “Kit”

My fifth grade teacher , Mrs. Gaskill,

My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Gaskill, owned a copy of Elizabeth George Speare’s The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Thomas Middleton

The Witch is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton.

the story of a girl from Barbados with more power than Patricia McKilliprealizes to find Patricia McKillip's new purpose and bring justice to a strange, cold Puritan world

The Witch of Blackbird Pond is the story of a girl from Barbados with more power than Patricia McKilliprealizes to find Patricia McKillip's new purpose and bring justice to a strange, cold Puritan world.

Anne Sexton

The poem describes a witch in the night, then describes American poet Anne Sexton as an unconventional housewife, and concludes with reference to Carl Dryer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The name of the author is Frances Hodgson Burnett, who was a British novelist.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Witch is purely a New England tale, a descendent of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Idries Shah

Witch was written by a friend of Gerald Gardner's, the Sufi mystic Idries Shah, but used the name of one of Gardner's High Priests, Jack L. Bracelin, because Shah was wary about being associated with Witchcraft.

James Middleton

The lines of the witches may have been written by playwright James Middleton in the 17th century.

Charlotte Brontë

The authorship of this scarlet indignity to English letters was variously attributed to almost everyone who could write except a certain Miss Charlotte Brontë of Yorkshire, who did write it in spite of that pen name Currer Bell, attributed with wild generosity to almost everybody in England, including the Devil, and Thackeray's governess, and even, among others, the perpetrator of 'Wuthering Heights,' who was indeed Miss Emily, another Brontë and Charlotte's sister.