''Precious and the Boo Hag'' is a children's fairy tale by
Patricia C. McKissack
Patricia C. McKissack (''née'' Carwell; August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was a prolific African-American children's writer. She was the author of more than 100 books, including Dear America books ''A Picture of Freedom, A Picture of Freedom: Th ...
and
Onawumi Jean Moss with illustrations by
Kyrsten Brooker.
''Precious and the Boo Hag''
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The story revolves around Precious, a young girl, who is left home, told by her mother to not let "nothing or nobody" into the house. Her brother teasingly warns her about Pruella the Boo Hag A boo hag is a mythical creature in the folklore of the Gullah culture. It is a locally created, unique contribution to the worldwide hag folklore based on the syncretic belief system of Gullah or Hoodoo cultures.
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who can change her shape and will do "most ''anything''" to get inside. Precious is not sure whether to believe him, but while she is alone the Boo Hag arrives on the back of a storm.
The tricky Boo Hag tries to wheedle her way inside, transforming into a thirsty passerby and then into a neighbor girl, but Precious is able to outwit her. Pruella almost succeeds when she transforms herself into a shiny new penny, but Precious realizes at the last minute that the penny has George Washington
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's face on it instead of Abraham Lincoln
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's. As her brother had told her, Pruella "aine too smart."
References
External links
* http://books.simonandschuster.com/9780689851940
American picture books
2005 children's books
Children's books about shapeshifting
Books by Patricia McKissack
Atheneum Books books
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