Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny

Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale is a 2004 picture book by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Barry Moser.

Booklist, reviewing Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny, wrote "This original scare tale, which may be her creepiest, is a wonderful horror story that draws on traditional beliefs about witches hanging up their skins and riding people using braided hair as a bridle.

Moser's framed, colored wood engravings do a great job of bringing the wild, shivery adventure close to home, their black backgrounds and strong lines lit with garish Halloween images in shades of green and red.

"[1] The School Library Journal recommended that "This tale is admirably suited to Halloween telling, or for any time that shivers are in order.

"[1] The Horn Book Magazine drew comparisons with Zora Neale Hurston's The Skull Talks Back (HarperCollins, 2004) and wrote that some of the illustrations "reflect a reality of historical suffering" and "casts an eerie suggestion of lynching" It found that "Visually and verbally, this is dark art on dark art.