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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Just a Witch is not Just for Children,
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This review is from: Not Just a Witch (Audio Cassette)
Eva Ibbotson's delightful humor combined with Prunella Scales's flawless reading makes this audio book a winner. Two witches, lifelong friends, have a falling out when they appear at a party wearing identical (live) snake hats. They move away from one another and both are courted by an evil man who plans to use their powers to become rich. The plot is fast moving and funny, but it is the many humorous touches that make this story a hit with adult listeners as well as children. Who can resist a balloon inflated by politicians' hot air -- education ministers claiming that more testing will improve education, and an atomic energy minister claiming that nuclear waste is good for fish! Scales reads as if she believes every word so listeners soon forget there is a narrator between them and enter fully into the story. Great listening for ages eight and up.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful, and wickedly funny,
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This review is from: Not Just a Witch (Paperback)
This author never ceases to amaze me. She knows how to tickle any childs funny bone with her outrageous characters and the adventures that the children in her stories find. When you read an Ibbotson book, you feel as if she is writing it just for you. Very enjoyable for adults too.
This story is about some kids in a small town who meet a good witch named Heckie with rather unusual powers, she can turn people into animals. You see Hecki and her best friend that is also a witch recently moved to town, and they both like kids. But after a disagreement, they stop being friends. Heckie begins to turn really bad wicked people in their village into animals. And as animals they become nice, and the wickedness goes away. But one day Heckie falls in love with the a scheming con man, who plans to use her powers for his own gain. The kids and her old friend must rescue her from herself. Very enjoyalbe reading!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Not Just A Witch,
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This review is from: Not Just a Witch (Paperback)
Not Just a Witch is a book by Eva Ibbotson. One reason why I like this book is because she knows how to tickle anyone's funny bone with the strange characters and outrageous adventures. Ibbottson's descriptions of everything are so detailed you feel like you are actually part of the story. I love how this can be read by a wide range of ages.
Hecate Tenbury-Smith or Heckie, as she likes to be called, is an animal witch. Her parents enrolled her in a school for good witches and she is now a recent graduate. Now she's a witch that wants to make the world a better place by turning people into nice, sweet animals. Heckie meets a boy named Daniel and they form an instant bond. They also form a private club called The Wellbridge Wickedness Hunters. Heckie creates a half dragon, half worm from a miserable duck. She then finds out it gets sick every time someone evil is in their midst. Then a scheming furrier named Lionel Knacksap makes Heckie fall in love with him. Not even the drag worm can show her he is evil. Can they figure out how to stop him before he kills innocent animals?
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