Which Witch?
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Synopsis
Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, needs a wife, and, naturally, the only woman a wizard can marry is a witch. But which witch will Arriman choose? Warty, wicked, or just plain rude-witches galore enter his spell-casting competition. Poor Belladonna doesn't have a chance. Her spells conjure up pink begonias or ice-cream sundaes, not a single viper or toad. But with the help of a mysterious orphan and a worm named Rover, Belladonna just might do something really sinister.
Eva Ibbotson, the author of The Secret of Platform 13, has created a comic fantasy that belongs on the same shelf as the works of Nesbit, Eager, and Dahl. Which Witch? was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, England's most prestigious children's book prize.
Annotation
Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, needs a wife, and, naturally, the only woman a wizard can marry is a witch. But which witch will Arriman choose? Warty, wicked, or just plain rude-witches galore enter his spell-casting competition. Poor Belladonna doesn't have a chance. Her spells conjure up pink begonias or ice-cream sundaes, not a single viper or toad. But with the help of a mysterious orphan and a worm named Rover, Belladonna just might do something really sinister.
Eva Ibbotson, the author of The Secret of Platform 13, has created a comic fantasy that belongs on the same shelf as the works of Nesbit, Eager, and Dahl. Which Witch? was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, England's most prestigious children's book prize.
Annotation
Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
I have a duplicate copy of this so I am passing this along to HennaGoddess who won one of my rabck contests.
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
This came in the mail today from Apolonia. Thanks for sending it along! I'll journal again once I read it (I'll also add a bookplate with the BCID before I release it.)
This was quite an enjoyable little book. I'll have to search out and read some of Eva Ibbotson's other books.
