Not Just a Witch

A boy called Daniel finds out that A WITCH has come to live in his town and runs a pet shop luckily she isnt a bad witch but a good witch and she turns bad people into animals with her magic toe because as soon as they are animals they arent bad any more. First she changes a nasty woman who runs a nasty home for old people then she changes a battery chicken farmer into a fish and then she is going to change a very bad man who hates black people into a tiger. Only her best friend Dora, who is a stone witch turns him into a statue first! And Mr. Knapsack, who is an evil furrier and wants Heckie (thats the witches name) to turn people into tigers so he can kill and skin them is FURIOUS. Heckie doesnt know that Mr.Knapsakc is a baddie because her dragworm, a cross between a dragon and a lowly worm, who is a WIckedness Detector, isnt allowed near him but Daniel knows and so do the other children and wizards only Heckie wont listen because she and Dora are both IN LOVE with him.
Its really exciting and funny and Im not going to say any more except READ IT!!!!!


Another gem from this magical writer   March 18, 2002
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

Ibbotson is at her best when combining the practicalities of real ife (such as running a small shop) with the problems likely to beset the supernatural. Heckie and her best friend (with whom she falls out)are gorgeously eccentric creations. We all read this on holiday, one after the other, and drove each other mad laughing.