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Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy's Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity [Hardcover]

Dame Darcy
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Book Description

August 21, 2012

Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Dame Darcy's Handbook for Hot Witches. This is the guide for girls who want cool things to do and great friends to do them with, who aren't afraid to be their different, awesome selves. It's a celebration of powerful, creative girls—the sort of girls who may have been called "witches" once, but who, as this book proclaims, are "hot," because of their talent and their uniqueness. With sections on banjo playing, beauty spells, palm reading, and much more, this fully illustrated handbook will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic.


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Editorial Reviews

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Gr 9 Up-This "illustrated guide to magic, love, and creativity" harkens back to the New Age bookstore shelves. Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages. Overflowing with Dame Darcy's signature black-and-white illustrations, it provides a quiz for readers to determine their hot-witch type and then details the modern-day "hot witches"-enchantress, Bard, mystic, seer, Pagan, etc. Odd comic retellings of fairy tales are interspersed throughout, adding to the cacophony. This book will not be without its niche of dedicated fans who may be tired of seeing witches morphed and mainstreamed into glamorous high schoolers helping vampiric friends, but the visually and verbally crammed text will likely have a small audience.-Elaine Baran Black, Georgia Public Library Service, Atlantaα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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"Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages.” —School Library Journal

What others have said about Dame Darcy:

“Darcy’s comics are aesthetic manifestos. . . . Darcy is a star.” —The New York Times

“I think she’s exquisite, let’s put it that way. I wish I knew her in high school.” —Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Praise for Meat Cake:

“[Darcy] has created a childlike, otherworldly realm, a land that hovers in the twilight space between the whimsical and the macabre. Ghosts and goblins, foul-tempered stepmothers, lovesick mermaids and charmed forest are all rendered in Darcy’s distinctive hand, loose and flowing lines reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey.” —The Los Angeles Times


Product Details

  • Age Range: 12 and up
  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); First Edition edition (August 21, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805093796
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805093797
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Go to it, girls! October 2, 2012
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This is Dame Darcy at her best! Plenty of artwork to satisfy her graphic fans, and the tales and advice are hilarious and thought provoking. One doesn't need to be a witch, or even to believe in magic, for this to be a book worth reading. There are recipes for candles, soap, and make up, horoscope information, and little bits of history as well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Handbook For Hot Witches September 11, 2012
By Deborah
Format:Hardcover
Handbook for Hot Witches is a sweet, girly guide that teaches young girls how to be ecologically aware, confident and creative in an otherwise challenging and sometimes difficult world. I enjoyed this book not only for the playful and visionary artwork, but also because it expands the minds of young girls to believe that being feminist and ecologically-minded is fun and something to be celebrated.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book! September 15, 2012
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Informative, fun, empowering and super creative...every girl should own a copy of this book. The artwork is the icing on the cake.
Love it!
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