The Magic Pasta Pot
It's a cauldron, really. The kind of thing you'd expect the Weird Sisters in Macbeth to be dancing around in the middle of their clearing. And yet…this pot, though magic, doesn't appear to have a...
The Priest and the Sisters of the Convent
There are a lot of nuns in this book. In fact, the priest and the nuns—or some combination thereof—appear on nine different pages (7, 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 26, 29, 31). So what are all of these re...
Animals, Animals, Animals
The peacock is the most prominent, as he should be. But a quick look around Strega Nona's home also reveals that she has at least one bunny (10), a goat (11), and some bird friends (5, 13). And of...