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Witches Handbook

Packaged like a “Picture Book”, I was surprised to see that this title is actually chocked full of information and activities about witches.  It begins with a story about two kids who received an urgent letter from their Aunt Amarga, instructing them to come to her house where they learned that she is the last witch on earth.  She wanted to tell the children some of the secrets of witches so none of the information would be forgotten.  The next page begins the Witches Handbook where you can learn about Flying Styles, Potions and Spells, Famous Witches and Warlocks, as well as do a Bewitching Word Search (bad idea for a library book), or make Spell-removing Pancakes.  The handbook is such an odd concoction of this and that…not unlike a cauldron filled with “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.”  Visually, it has “Primary” written all over it…yet the amount of text and sophisticated vocabulary makes me think…”Intermediate”.  What comes across most is FUN!