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The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a children's novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, published in 1958. The story takes place in late 17th-century New England. It won the Newbery Medal in 1959.
The next year she completed her second historical novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, which won numerous awards including the Newbery Medal. Ideas and inspiration for both books came to Speare while she was researching the history of New England and Connecticut, respectively.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Full Book Summary. A young Englishwoman, Katherine “Kit” Tyler, sails from the island country of Barbados to North America in 1687 to start a new life. Captain Eaton and his son Nat operate the merchant vessel Dolphin.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | ALA. by Elizabeth George Speare, and published by Houghton. About. The setting of the story is Wethersfield, Connecticut and the heroine is Kit, a sixteen-year-old, who comes from the Barbados to make her home with relatives in the Puritan community.
An elderly Quaker woman who lives alone in a small cottage near Blackbird Pond. Kind and somewhat eccentric, the townspeople of Wethersfield unfairly label her a witch and treat her with hostility and suspicion.
One summer morning, Judith and Kit go to the Great Meadows to do some weeding, and Kit is immediately enchanted by the beautiful meadows. There is one house in the Meadows, which belongs to an elderly Quaker widow named Hannah Tupper, whom the townspeople say is a witch.
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft! Read An Excerpt.
