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IVAN AND THE WITCH, by Mischa Damjan, illustrated by Toma Bogdanovic (McGraw-Hill; $4.50); IVANKO AND THE DRAGON, by Marie Halun Bloch, illustrated by Yaroslava (Atheneum; $4.95). Two books, both worth reading, based on the same-folk tale-though the first claims to be Russian, the second Ukrainian. The Bogdanovic casein and pastel illustrations are blurrily magical. Yaroslava's precise pictures are closer to folk...
Numbers are a part of every segment, brightly illustrated by animations and films. Letters are also featured. On the first program, the letter W was the focus of a segment involving Wanda the Witch, Who Walked to the Well one Wednesday in Winter to get Water to Wash her Wig. The Wig was Whipped away by a Wild Wind. Moral: "Witches Who Wash their Wigs on Windy Winter Wednesdays are Wacky...
...young man, Dennis, sits on the front porch in a floorlength white robe, with blond hair flowing past his shoulders. "Why are you wearing a dress?" I ask. "I'm a witch," he answers. "In fact, you're just in time to see one of my ceremonies. Come on upstairs." I follow. "Don't worry, I'm not a black witch, I'm a white witch. Most of us are. Our powers diminish when we use them selfishly." We come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people?housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle...
...only all been working under the common assumption that The Master of Royels-or, perhaps, you prefer, The Lord of Misrule- was billeted within the sumptuous confines of the Poon's matchbox Versailles, then there would have been no need for all the soul-searching and witch-hunting that was to follow. We could have all just pointed a communal finger at the Poon, shouted a hearty Faccuse and that would have been that...
...writing these novels, and that she wrote them in order to learn. Ordinary historical research, the reading of the documents, was only a beginning; the more important part of her learning, it is clear, came as her characters took form and motion. What clay and what fire make a witch? Write a novel, watch, and find out. The method works if the author has a genius for empathy and historic imagination...