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Gillian Rosner
2 Reviews
(2)
4-6
Translated by Gillian Rosner.
This good-natured story, told by four narrators, begins and ends with the mother's point of view, but eleven-year-old Verbena is always the focus. Verbena longs for a normal life, which is hard when you come from a line of spell-brewing witches. With its likable characters, this French import charts familiar mother/daughter territory; potions and spells exist companionably with the novel's more realistic elements.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2006
(3)
4-6
Translated by Gillian Rosner.
During the time of the Crusades, a French Jewish community in which the famous scholar Rashi lives is threatened by anti-Semitic violence. Rashi's spirited granddaughter Elvina protects one of the crusaders, a risk that later saves her father's life. Told in alternating first and third person chapters, the novel introduces readers to an unusual setting and important historical period. Glos.
Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn
2 reviews
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