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Which witch?

Eva Ibbotson

1979170 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Macmillan · 197 pages · ENGISBN 9780333244531
  • 1981Piccolo in association with Macmillan London · 170 pages · ENGISBN 9780330265867
  • 1999Dutton Children's Books · 231 pages · ENGISBN 9780525461647
  • 2001Harper CollinsISBN 9780330398008
  • 2001Thorndike Press · 255 pages · ENGISBN 9780786230730
  • 1993Chivers Audio Books · ENGISBN 9780745144443
  • 1988Scholastic · ENGISBN 9780590419260

Arriman the Awful, feared Great Wizard of the North, has decided to marry, because he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful. But his wife must be a witch of the darkest powers... A sorcery competition among the witches of Todcaster is held to discover which witch is the most potent and fiendish. The competition begins, and each witch it turn pulls out of the cauldron her especially wicked spell. But some go terribly, horribly wrong. Glamorous Madame Olympia conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats! Belladonna, the white witch, desperately wants to be a wicked enchantress, but her magic produces flowers instead of snakes. How can she become more devilish than all the other witches?

How it feels

AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

Character focusTwo hander

Worth knowing

Romance levelCentral

When and where

Reading situationRead aloud
ThemesLove
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