The Kingfisher Treasury of Witch and Wizard Stories
David Bennett, editor
Kingfisher
Fiction, CH Anthology/Fantasy
Themes: Fairy Tales, Witches and Wizards
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Description
This treasury contains many short stories about magic-workers, from fairy tales to more modern encounters.
Review
I wavered on this book's rating for some time, but finally came down on the side of Bad. The majority of these stories are old fairy tales, with warty evil witches cursing people. Call me crazy, but I consider that an extremely outdated and poor image to project, not to mention a flimsy stereotypes; yes, I understand that was how it was "back then," but this is a modern collection aimed at modern children. The fairy tales and folk stories make less sense out of context (at least, to a 21st-century American) than they might with a bit of explanation. Of them all, only about three tales stand out in my memory as being good, with a few more being merely confusing and the rest wandering and/or poor. If you want a good anthology of fantasy tales, or even a good collection of fairy-tales and folk stories, you can do better elsewhere.