Heckedy Peg By Audrey Wood

Audrey Wood has always been one of my favorite authors, and the illistrations done by Don Wood have also been a favorite of mine. This book teaches children a great lesson of listening to what you are told by your parents. The children are told not to open the door for anyone and not to touch fire, but when the witch bribes them with gold they immediately forget what their mother had told them. The children are all named after the days of the week which I found odd. My favorite part of the story was the end when the mother pretends to cut off her feet. I can see young children thinking this was really funny because they know the truth about her feet when the mother is tricking the witch.
I liked how the story came together in the end when the mother named each of her children by what they had asked for from the market. The food that each child had been turned into matched perfectly with what they had asked for.