![]() ![]() PARSLEY SAGE, ROSEMARY & TIME (Atheneum /Margaret K. ![]() The writing is good‐humored and romantic -perfect summer reading for bored 10‐year‐old girls who have re‐read their Nancy Drews beyond endurance. As it churns out, they didn't, and Margaret's ghost cannot rest until she reveals the truth to our contemporary heroine through automatic writing and a seance or two that lead her to explore a tide‐free cave at the base of the cliff. THE HAUNTING OF ELLEN (Harper & Row, $5.95), by Catherine Sefton is a pleasant enough, if simple‐minded story set by the sea in Ireland, and the mystery revolves around the legend of two turn‐of‐the‐century lovers, Peader and Margaret, who presumably dashed themselves to death in the churning Atlantic. Gather round, ye witches and warlocks and hearers of dead voices, here are eight new books written for and about extra‐ordinary girls and boys, 9 and up. I knew I was a witch when was 11, or surely an emissary from some remote and richer realm, and if I had come into this one not exactly railing clouds of glory, at least I had the power to cloud men's minds Most of us share and subsequently elinquish this sense of our special participation in the extraordinary, so you might think it would be a (super) natural for writers with the juvenile trade in mind. ![]()
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