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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 spellcasting competition, Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plaguebearing 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 bloodsucking vampires, Poor Belladonna longs to be an evil enchantress but how
'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' Philip Pullman A fun read silly and sweet, and yes, charming.
I should just start writing "CHARMING" ten times in a row for all of my Ibbotson reviews, I can't seem to come up with another word for her, She's charming and delightful. Go read her.
My work here is done, I was inspired in revisiting this book by my cute little sisters playing witches in our backyard, There they were strutting around the grass sneering disdain and blurting out curses on "unwanted visitors" commenting on how annoyingly good soandso was, And I just sat there and smiled, smart little creatures' I thought who
at their young age already understood the beauty of a goodold bad guy, Then I remembered this book, I remember reading this when I was aboutnot really understanding half of the vocabulary which struck me as quite complex for a children's book this time around yet loving the way that the characters all accepted and acted on the common belief of the superiority of being Black.
It was and still is a nice change from the onslaught of golden values, morality and conscience that is more predominantly found in children's books, This is one book I'll be sure to pass on to my kids in the future It'll become a classic for sure, This book was adorable so thanks to Nithya, Belladonna is so adorkable and I didn't find her annoying even once : I got transported back to my childhood!! A book about witch competition to marry the Great Wizard.
Each witch has to show her darkest magic and she becomes the Great Wizardess, The Grand Wizard wanting a successive heir so he can give his position to the next great wizard, The book is so cute and amazing, You read about dark magic and instead of detesting it, you actually enjoy it cuz obviously its all fiction and bit funny too, Oh and there's a villain as well who cheats in the competition, totally enjoyable!
This gif basically sums the book up:
I was pleasantly surprised by this quick read.
My daughter told me I HAD to read it, after she had read and enjoyed it herself, So I took it along on a long train trip, and read it in one sitting, While Ibbotson will never win any awards for character development, she does have a way with both words and plot her turns of phrase continually gave me pleasure, and her silly plot made me laugh out loud several times, drawing bemused looks from my fellow train passengers.
A good book for younger middle grade readers who like their fantasy with a strong dose of humor, This was a fun story about a dark wizard who wants to retire, But in order to do that he has to get married and have a child, So he decides he'll gather all the witches and have them perform their magic for him, Whoever has the darkest magic will be his bride,witches compete, one of them is Belladonna, a witch whose magic always produces flowers and baby animals, But she's loved the wizard since she can remember, so in order to win she'll have to concoct a sinister plan!
I enjoyed this story, It's mostly all fun, though there are definitely some darker aspects, I liked Belladonna's story arc and how she rescued a child from an orphanage so he and his worm friend could help her win the contest, Overall, this was a happy story and kept me entertained, this book rules. it's like the bachelor but with witches and also for children, nothing could ever hit harder
part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago, and i'm REALLY good at it Eva Ibbotson had written a book I absolutely adored as I kid but I just couldn't find it now as an adult.
My guess was that I've read multiple witchy/spooky book and they all got mixed in to one big fond memory, The plot sounded interesting but not quite what I remembered but I loved it nonetheless, Such a cozy and fun witchy book, I normally don't like to read about witches but after this I think I simply don't like to read books for adults about witches but love when it's meant for kids.
I will most definitely listen to more spooky books by Eva Ibbotson whether it's october or npt Arriman the awful, Grand Poobah of all things nasty and mighty dark wizard of the North has had many happy years of blighting, smiting and wrecking a great deal of havoc.
But there comes a time when even the darkest of wizards gets tired of the "monotony" and wants to pass on the mantle to a more sinister and deserving wizard.
The great hunt begins and Arriman creates a kindly, threeheaded monster called the "Wizard Watcher" for the task, But with not even the faintest squeak of a dark wizard from any direction, Arriman decides that marriage would be the only way to create a suitable heir to carry on his illustrious heritage.
Here's the tiny blip in plans, . . a wizard can only marry a witch and the local witches are a disastrous motley of the weird and the frightfully whacky! Covered with warts in unmentionable places, swarming with maggots, cackling evilly.
they fulfil every "witchy" stereotype!
A contest will be held and the winner will be Arriman's blushing new shudder bride, The contestants are to be judged on their skill, finesse, imagination and grandiosity in executing their black magic, But among the brood of harridans is a single, lovely witch Belladonna, Blueeyed and goldenhaired, Belladonna has always been a white witch, She could put a dozen Disney Princesses to shame with the goodness of her heart and generosity of spirit, She longs to be dark and dreary like the rest of her coven and be a powerful, black witch, . something that would make her an ideal wife for Arriman, And to help her achieve this goal are a líl orphan boy: Terrence Mugg, his pet earthworm: Rover and Arriman's longsuffering but obliging staff,
A hilarious book which embraces all things dark and sinister and revels in the ghoulish and the gory, "Which Witch" is a fine treat for all Potter fans.
After tuttutting over Voldemort's antics, it's nice to have an endearing, dark wizard like Arrimann, Despite his magnificent powers, he is basically a normal man quailing in his boots at the prospect of waking up every morning to a wartcovered, slimewrapped, shrieking witch of a wife!!
Laughoutloud and a definite treat for children and adults who never lose their fascination for magic and mayhem.
" there really was no way of telling which witch was which, " I picked up this book because of the reference in the sitelinkCastle Hangnail, where sitelinkUrsula Vernon mentioned Which Witch as an inspiration, And since I really liked Castle Hangnail, I couldn't miss this one,
I guess the author was a pioneer in the genre, Though he book is a bit outofdate now, it's still not like the lot of children's books, It's really very amusing.
Only four is for being just amusing, nothing more, It was a good read, but I will not read it again, .