Description
Which Witch? is a brilliantly witty tale of magic and marriage by Eva Ibbotson, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
'Find me a witch!' cried Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North.
Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers - but which witch will she be? To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition.
Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats. The magic of gentle Belladonna, the white witch, goes hopelessly wrong. She produces perfumed flowers instead of snakes. And bats roost in her golden hair instead of becoming blood-sucking vampires.
Poor Belladonna longs to be an evil enchantress - but how?
'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' - Philip Pullman.
A delightful adventure story from the brilliant Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea
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, Dial a Ghost and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
Reviews
The perfect alternative for Harry Potter fans * Independent on Sunday *
This kind of fun will never fail to delight. -- Philip Pullman
Wildly original and wholly satisfying. -- Amanda Craig * The Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781447265740
Author Eva Ibbotson
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 148g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 14mm
