A beautiful book explaining the wheel of the year seasons and celebrations through story. The illustrations are lovely and colorful, although not my favorite style personally. This is a great way to introduce these concepts of young children.

This is a beautiful book! I will definitely be buying this to add to my collection. It has amazing illustrations, and wonderful information and rituals to celebrate the wheel of the year! I love how the story follows the two sisters, and explains how the moon, sun and Gaia (Mother Earth) came about. Such a magical and lovely book that any pagan would adore!

This was a delight! My only issue was that some of the text was really hard to read on the darker backgrounds, this could be a problem for people who have issues with contrast, but the overall story and book was delightful and perfect for younger readers and older ones alike to introduce them to the wheel of the year.

The Magical Wheel of the Year, written by Bérengère Demoncy and Victoria Ruiz Y Lopez, is a brilliant retelling of the eight Pagan festivals: Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasa and Mabon. This story comes complete with examples of how each festival is celebrated around the world. I would recommend this book and hope they publish more stories from around the world.

A truly charming, beautifully illustrated look at the pagan wheel of the year. Told in both story form and explained through detailed looks at each individual celebration, there's so much to be learned and in such an accessible, vibrant way!

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.

When I saw the description of this book I was very excited AND am now very excited to report this book was absolutely everything I wanted it to be. I've been looking for an easy to understand, beautiful telling of the wheel of the year holidays. I loved the beautifully illustrated story and all the activities and recipes for each holiday at the end of the book. I'm so excited for this. Thank you! What a gorgeous book.

I had entirely forgotten that this would be a narrative after having requested this book, hence it was a lovely surprise to the narrative approach to the different phases in a pagan year.
The style is cute, however its authenticity could have been emphasised more with a better blending of the words/text and the images.

In the time I have spent as a public library cataloger, I have been pleased to see more pagan books aimed and children & families being published, and this title is no exception. Demoncy's book is a little bit of a combination of two things: the first two-thirds is a picture book style-narrative which features Gaia and Selene (representing the earth and the moon) journeying through the wheel of the year and discovering the eight pagan holidays/sabbats. The last third is most accurate to the book description, containing activities, recipes, and crafts for each of the holidays, as well as more information about each and how they are related to other cultural celebrations (for example, the Samhain entry mentions the origins of Halloween and All Soul's Day.)

I was a little surprised, based in the book description, that so much of this title is dedicated to the narrative as opposed to more informational content. I think the cover, which reminds me of the very nice DK children's editions that have been published recently, put me into that DK/DK Eyewitness nonfiction mindset. The art style of this narrative is a little flat and digital feeling for my personal liking, but I do think it is effectively used to tell the story of Gaia and Selene's journey through the year. I especially enjoyed the way the art was featured in the back half of the book after the story; the greater amount of white space around the illustrations improves the sense of depth and contrast.

Overall, I would recommend this title to children and families who are seeking out books on Paganism/Pagan holidays, though I would clarify for them that it is less of a nonfiction work and more of a narrative with accompanying features. I appreciate the work author and illustrator have done to increase the amount of information available to young readers on this subject.

This book was interesting. The illustrations are lovely, some a little creepy, but interesting.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.

This was a quick read for me, but might take a child a bit longer. The book starts out with a story about two sisters, Selene and Gaia, taking a journey through the magical wheel of the year. The illustrations and story are well done and the story does a good job of introducing the different festivals.
The story is followed by an explanation of solstices, equinoxes and moon phases before giving a few pages per festival to explain them more in depth. I feel like the format worked well. Each one has activities and/or recipes to try.
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

This is a sweet children’s book about a little girl learning about the pagan wheel of the year and the major pagan holidays. The end has a few simple crafts and activities for each holiday.

I read a temporary digital loan of this book via netgalley.

An adorable picture book that teaches the reader about the wheel of the year and several different holidays. I liked that it included history about each holiday and had activities for the readers to partake in if they so choose. One qualm I had with the book was that the white font was hard to read on some of the pages because of the art work behind the words. Maybe it will look different in actual print, but on the computer it was difficult.