{"id":9459,"date":"2023-03-05T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2023-03-05T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:51:13","slug":"369w-illustrated-childrens-book-with-child-snatching-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/369w-illustrated-childrens-book-with-child-snatching-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"369W: Illustrated Children&#8217;s Book with Child-snatching Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>It was a large hardback colour illustrated book. The story features a boy, a girl and a dog or cat, I think they have to stay inside because it&#8217;s raining. I think the girl is trying to scare the boy by telling a story about this witch that snatches children. The witch rides around on a vacuum cleaner like thing I think. I vividly remember the illustrations being the main focus, some taking up the entire page and I think some pages had special printing like glow in the dark patches. I think the girl was emphasising how she wasn&#8217;t scared of all these fantastical things going on and I definitely remember at the end of the book she is scared by a spider or mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read this book as a child, but I can say for certain when, I think the time frame for when the book was released is 1985-2005 though could be earlier. It was in the UK if that makes any difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been bothering me a lot because every time I try to search it I end up getting the same results of Badjelly the Witch, Terry Pratchett&#8217;s The Witch&#8217;s Vacuum, Winnie the Witch, The Wednesday Witch, The Littlest Witch, etc &#8211; it isn&#8217;t any of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a large hardback colour illustrated book. The story features a boy, a girl and a dog or cat, I think they have to stay inside because it&#8217;s raining. I think the girl is trying to scare the boy by telling a story about this witch that snatches children. The witch rides around on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,22,3,19],"tags":[213,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}