Witch's Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Quite witchy, eh?īy the way, the first book I read in this series was The Witch's Eye when I was 11 years old (I am now 27), and at that time, though there were some missing parts in the book (as it was the 4th one in the series), I still kept reading the book and must have read it a dozen times back then. Naylor weaves a spell in every book that even after reading the same book a number of times I keep coming back and each time I find something new or different. I have read the entire Witch Saga series a lot of times and every time I read them I cant seem to put them down. The little dog haunted her so much that she had to write a story about him to get it out of her mind. 'Shiloh' was inspired by a little abused dog she and her husband found. Naylor gets her ideas from things that happen to her or from things she has read. One of these books, 'Shiloh,' was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1992, was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association and was also Young Adult Choice by the International Reading Association. Phyllis has written over 80 books for children and young people. Her parents enjoyed reading stories to the children-her father would imitate the characters in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer-and her mother read to them every evening, 'almost until we were old enough to go out on dates, though we never would have admitted this to anyone.'īy the time Phyllis reached fifth grade, writing books was her favorite hobby and she would rush home from school each day to write down whatever plot had been forming in her head - at sixteen her first story was published in a local church magazine. Though she grew up during the Depression and her family did not have a lot of money, Naylor stated that she never felt poor because her family owned good books.

Her family were strongly religious with conservative, midwestern values and most of her childhood was spent moving a lot due to her father's occupation as a salesman. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, US on January 4, 1933.

Witch's Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor