Description
With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, Not Just A Witch is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
'I want you to change the next wicked person you see into a tiger,' demanded Lionel. 'A very large tiger.'
Heckie is not just a witch - she's an animal witch, who wants to make the world a better place by transforming evil people into harmless animals, using her incredible Toe of Transformation and her awesome Knuckle of Power. But when slimy Lionel Knapsack charms Heckie, her magic begins to take a darker direction. Her friends, including a cheese wizard and a boy called Daniel, must come to the rescue . . .
A wonderfully spooky young-fiction title for younger readers from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
About the Author
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
Reviews
Eva Ibbotson has assumed the mantle of Roald Dahl. * School Librarian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781447265702
Author Eva Ibbotson
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 130g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 11mm
