If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja

Name: If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.net/authors/Ana-Siqueira/176962220
ISBN: 9781534488748

By Ana Siqueira

Illustrated by Irena Freitas

LIST PRICE $18.99

About The Book

This bouncy, bilingual picture book is an enchanting, rollicking read-aloud for small ones with big imaginations.

On the night before Halloween, a new babysitter might be more than she appears. If she wears a black sombrero and cackles like a crow, she might just be a bruja! One little girl is determined not to fall victim to an evil witch or her cats. She knows bath time is really the bruja’s way of putting her in a boiling cauldron, and the only way to keep her at bay is with a magic potion—or is it?

With a boundless imagination and plenty of tricks up her sleeve, the young protagonist may just have the best night ever!

About The Author

Photograph © Neusa Emiliano

Ana Siqueira

Ana Siqueira is an award-winning author from Brazil who cackles but doesn’t wear hats. When not flying with brujas, she teaches Spanish to adorable little ones, where she casts a learning spell that nobody can resist. Besides Bella’s Recipe for Success and If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja, Ana has also published a Spanish early reader for the education market. She loves being an abuela and a vovó to her Cuban-Brazilian American grandkids. She lives in Florida with her husband, who just might be a wizard.

About The Illustrator

Photograph by Monica Dias

Irena Freitas

Irena Freitas is an award-winning artist and illustrator. She has an MFA in illustration from SCAD and loves illustrating people, funny situations that happen in daily life, and whimsical stories. When she is not reading and illustrating books she likes to travel and visit new places. Irena lives in Manaus, Brazil.

Why We Love It

“Irena Freitas’s joyful, vibrant art is a perfect complement to the adorable, rhythmic text about a very small girl with a very massive imagination! Ana Siqueria’s prose seamlessly incorporates the multicultural protagonist’s natural Spanish-English code-switching in a way that is organic without becoming inaccessible to monolingual audiences, and it is a delight to read out loud in any language.”

—Alyza L., Associate Editor, on If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja