Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premode...(展开全部)

This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.

Meet a hero, a wise old grandmother, and the most gruesome, grotesque gang of witches imaginable!

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.

When Joseph Binks is sent to stay with his mother, stepfather and half-sister Esme for Christmas, he is not at all happy. He would have preferred to have spent the time with his father, but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency. And so Christmas does not turn out quite as Joe anticipated...finding himself at the centre of a plot to rid Grea...(展开全部)

When Joseph Binks is sent to stay with his mother, stepfather and half-sister Esme for Christmas, he is not at all happy. He would have preferred to have spent the time with his father, but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency. And so Christmas does not turn out quite as Joe anticipated...finding himself at the centre of a plot to rid Grea...(展开全部)

帕诺威奇是美国南方一名土生土长的佐治亚人，他的两部短篇小说《假若我终有一日能下山》和《下山》曾获得2013年“惊奇奖”提名（Spinetingler Prize)。《公牛山》是该系列的第一部长篇小说。

劳拉·亚当斯·阿默（1874—1963），美国著名作家和艺术家，纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖得主。她曾在加利佛尼亚设计学院读书，1924年，移居亚利桑那州。1928年，她担任《Mountain Chant》的制片。劳拉·亚当斯·阿默在摄影方面颇具建树，印第安传统文化都在她的创作中留下明显印记。 1932年，她的小说《荒泉山》获得当年的纽伯瑞金奖。