The art in this book is beautiful. I want to hang them on my wall. The rhymes are fun and it is a great lesson about not judging other people.

5 stars

My little brother didn't like it; he said, "Why are the witches ugly?" I can't answer him. It's a completely hard question.
=> I prefer to put the gorgeous woman as a Witch 🧹 and see how the story ends up.

Casting aside my own reservations when it comes to portrayal of witches, the rhymes are fun and my kids love the book. When it comes down to illustrations, I wish we would move on from depicting witches in such a negative and unflatering light.

Do You Think She's a Witch is a rhyming tale that fits the season of October. With a humorous twist at the end, I liked how this book sets out to make an elderly woman less intimidating. Children are often afraid of old folks unless they are exposed to them, and this book is a good first step. With about five sentences a page, rhyming, I recommend this book for children age 4+. I recommend this book for parents who are worried their children is afraid of old people, for groups of children about to volunteer at an elderly living facility, or for simply a light-hearted Halloween read.

The illustrations are hand-made with pen ink and water colors. They are simply lovely, featuring the hunch-backed old woman suspected of witchcraft. Beginning with a spooky color pallet of purples and greens, the art transitions to a more light-hearted, pink setting as the story gets closer and closer to the truth in a way that ge tly foreshadows the ending.

Overall, I liked the story's lesson, rhyming, art style, and pacing! This is a quick, fun read that leaves children with a better ethical mindset in a very gentle way.

Thanks to Netgalley, Judith M. Ackerman, and BooksGoSocial for a free ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Do You Think She's a Witch? is a fun and expressive picture book with such a good message for children to take away with them.
Told in rhyming format, we follow a lady who looks like a witch from what she wears. Children are left guessing from the rhyme and illustrations (which are perfect for Halloween by the way) if she is a witch or not. The illustrations are humorous and add lots of fun to the story. The message children learn from this book is not to judge someone for what they wear nor how they look and to be kind to everyone - just because they look different to themselves doesn't mean they're a witch or mean etc.

I received an ARC for #DoYouThinkShesaWitch from #NetGalley.

A rhyming story about an old lady whom kids suspected as a witch. Is she? The story would entertain children, since the clues of the identity of the woman is not so clear, until the end. And this book will help them being creative with words, even though they haven't learn the rhymes yet.

I liked the start of the book, the rhyming, tone and pace set by the author. I didn’t like how she ended the story. It didn’t explain any of the reasons why people thought she was a witch and how she wasn’t. It just ended abruptly with the old woman’s sneeze. Which was completely irrelevant to the question of her being a witch, nor did it answer the questions posed by the previous pages. The illustrations were nice and detailed but I wouldn’t buy this book myself nor would I recommend it as a good gift or as a bedtime story book for parents.

My Halloween-obsessed child loved this book about a misunderstood old woman and the children in town questioning if she is a witch. Cats are heavily featured.

Oh I wanted to love this book so much because it was about witches and I thought it would be really interesting. Sadly I feel like the story fell short. The artwork was interesting it felt very old school 50s and I liked that. What I did not like was how it just abruptly ended. She blows her nose and that's the ending. I'm not really sure what kids are supposed to take away from this lesson. I suppose the author was trying to go with that kid shouldn't judge people that they don't know just based on how they look, but I wish the author would have taken the few extra pages to make it more apparent to children. I think if a child was reading this book on their own they wouldn't be able to draw that conclusion and they would need to be told that's what the book meant.

You really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and nor people by their appearance.

There lives a scrawny old woman, which by the author’s description is the stereotypical physicality of a witch. The kids in the neighbourhood follow her from a distance, afraid of how she looks — a mole on her nose, a hump on her back. Her often patched sack, holds, in their fear, spells and poisons. And, when she finally does reach into her tattered sack… well I won’t spoil the fun.

Ackerman to her credit has used the very words that young children use to describe any standout physical traits in an individual. The writing is engaging, funny, written in simple and accessible language, perfect for young readers, but the older ones might get bored, rush through the reading.

The message from the book, on how it is not right to judge people on the way they look is educational without sounding patronising and that is essential for kids, otherwise they aren’t going to listen.

I love the illustration by Diem. They are colourful, supporting Ackerman’s text and elevating it further.

I would recommend this book to everyone.

Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. These opinions are completely my own.

A cute book about assumptions. Short and sweet with nice illustrations.

I love picture books.
This one piqued my interest due to its title, and it rhymed.
However, maybe because of that, the reveal was a bit unsatisfactory for me.
It only explained why her nose is that way and what’s in the bag, but didn’t address why she dressed like that or why she came to the town in the first place.
Maybe the author ran out of rhyme?
Curious kids will likely ask more questions, and hopefully, their parents can be creative in providing resolutions.
I’ll give this 4 out of 5 stars.

This is a cute rhyming book about an old lady whose appearance frightens children. Turns out she just had a cold. Feels like it would have been better with at least a little bit of interaction at the end so we see the kids learned their lesson about judging based on appearances. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

Eh, this is cute but ultimately I think we're past the 'haha disabled old woman is a witch' trope. If you had told me this was a kids book from the 1980s, I would have believed it. The 'witch' here is disabled and not conventionally attractive, who turns out not to be a witch...but this reveal isn't followed up with any sort of lesson about how we shouldn't judge people based on their appearances, the book just ends. So I'm unsure about what pedagogical value this text has, except perhaps from the rhyming scheme....but that's hardly unique. I do not recommend this for children.

Fun book! I liked every aspect of this book (illustrations, plot, writing style, etc.), I just expected more from the ending. It felt pretty underwhelming, and I wanted something with more substance to happen. What I would have liked to see happen is the kids helping the witch, or the witch being nice to everyone, or something similar. While I appreciated the rhyming scheme that related to the ending, it was weak. It was as if the author had to rush to finish writing this book, and whipped something up quickly. Although, that was the only thing I disliked about this book. One notable thing that I really enjoyed about this story was the illustrations. More specifically, the style of them. I think that it was a clever idea for the illustrator to color each image with watercolors. They gave the book a "classic" feel, and helped it to feel more "real" or "material". If that doesn't make complete sense: I thought that each and every drawing was beautifully done.

What a fun little story. In this poetic story told in rhyming text along with bold and creative illustrations. We follow the little old woman as she walks through town. Could she possibly be a witch? The children all wanna know. Read this fun story with your little ones as they keep guessing the whole time. So easy to read and follow, perfect for story time with your little ones. It would also be a great book to use around Halloween in an early childhood classroom. The possibilities are endless.

This would be an interesting Halloween story to read. There is an old woman with a mole, a humped back and a red nose. It turns out she is just an old woman with a cold, not a witch like the children wonder.

Thank you to NetGalley and Booksgosocial for allowing me to read a review copy of this book.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. I'm always very happy about an ARC and being able to give it a review! <3

Never judge a book by its cover :)

An extremely sweet illustrated story for small children with an important message. I had a lot of fun reading it and would definitely recommend it to many parents.

This was such a charming little story! My daughter was captivated the entire time and loved that the woman had to sneeze because she sees how our cats make me sneeze all the time. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share this with my daughter, it was lovely and we will definitely be revisiting it!

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC!

"Do You Think She's a Witch" is a cute story that's perfect for the Halloween season. As children sometimes make up stories and rumors about older women being witches, this is a fun book to read that can be a good opener to conversations with children about not being too quick to judge others based on the way that they look.

I like books that rhyme, as they're easy to read and hold attention. My five-year-old is getting into learning about rhyming words too, so she particularly enjoys books like this.

The illustrations were rich and detailed, and my daughter liked to look at the pictures. The art held her attention really well and was spooky without being scary right before bedtime, but it was more elevated than more cartoon-style witch books we read this season.

It would have been nice to find out more about the old woman or to have her have a nice interaction with the children so that they could see that she wasn't scary or a witch. My daughter also asked about her house, so it would have been fun to see more of the woman's life revealed.

Overall, a quick, fun book to read with little ones during the Halloween season.

Thanks to NetGalley for the electronic copy.