- Library Binding: 249 pages
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1435263723
- ISBN-13: 978-1435263727
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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Which of the most powerful witches will win the right to marry Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North? The competition begins, and each witch it turn pulls out of the cauldron her especially wicked spell. But some go terribly, horribly wrong. By the author of "The Great ghost Rescue".
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Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North, has decided to marry. But his wife must be a witch of the darkest powers . . . A sorcery competition is held to discover which witch is the most potent and fiendish, and glamorous Madame Olympia conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats! Belladonna, the white witch, desperately wants to be a wicked enchantress, but her magic produces flowers instead of snakes. How can she become more devilish than all the other witches? 'Eva Ibbotson weaves a magic like no other. Once enchanted, always enchanted.' Michael Morpurgo
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book might be just the right thing to buy for your kids while they are waiting for the next Harry Potter book to be released. It has magic, and a weird plot, but it is full of innocence and good fun. I really think that "Which witch" will engage the attention of even the most active kid, and who knows, maybe even that of an adult who is tired to death of "serious things" and needs a respite.
The plot is simple. Arriman the Awful, a powerful evil wizard, has to marry. Unfortunately, he isn't in love, but he is all the same aware of the fact that he needs to have kids to prolong his legacy of terror. The solution Arriman finds is quite brilliant: he organizes a contest in evil witchcraft, the prize for the winner being his hand in marriage. Of course, the local witches are extremely happy with the news, and begin to prepare for the competition. One of them, Belladona, is in fact profoundly in love with Arriman, and would do almost anything to marry him. There is a little problem, though: Belladona is a white witch :)
I think that I have already given you enough details to have an idea of what this book is about. All in all, I believe that this book is excellent, and that your kids (and maybe you?) are highly likely to have enormous fun with the antics of Belladona and her friends in their struggle to turn her into a black witch. Read it, and enjoy!!
Belen Alcat
The plot is simple. Arriman the Awful, a powerful evil wizard, has to marry. Unfortunately, he isn't in love, but he is all the same aware of the fact that he needs to have kids to prolong his legacy of terror. The solution Arriman finds is quite brilliant: he organizes a contest in evil witchcraft, the prize for the winner being his hand in marriage. Of course, the local witches are extremely happy with the news, and begin to prepare for the competition. One of them, Belladona, is in fact profoundly in love with Arriman, and would do almost anything to marry him. There is a little problem, though: Belladona is a white witch :)
I think that I have already given you enough details to have an idea of what this book is about. All in all, I believe that this book is excellent, and that your kids (and maybe you?) are highly likely to have enormous fun with the antics of Belladona and her friends in their struggle to turn her into a black witch. Read it, and enjoy!!
Belen Alcat
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had to read this book in my 2nd year at high school, now 8 years on I find myself picking it up again. It is still brilliant, and I think, is the kind of read you take away with you when you just want to relax and enjoy a book without thinking too hard at it all. Serious adult books are all well and good but this is a must have if u have a spare few hrs to just longue around. It is funny and well written and i know the young (and the young at heart) will enjoy reading this book time and time again.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a child I prided myself on being a hardened horror afficionado,convincing the babysitter that The Hammer House of Horror was more educational than Bagpuss. Children's fiction was therefore to be avoided at all costs, except when under duress by my primary teacher to read the obligatory titles of the out-dated syllabus. Whitch Witch immediately sounded promising, and although it didn't offer up the much anticipated stake burning extravaganza that my young mind had so vividly imagined, it was the most enjoyable and memorable book of those formative years.Witches casting spells inspired by jealousy and ambition, each trying to out-do the other in their quest to marry the most handsome and powerful wizard of them all; sometimes ludicrous, often hilarious and always immensely enjoyable.....with a fairy-tale ending that even a cynical 8 year old re-read well into her teens! Oh how I want to be Belladonna, erm, I mean wanted!!! This book will weave a spell on you which will outlast your belief in Santa Claus tenfold!
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Which Witch?
A while ago I bought a pack of 10 Eve Ibbotson ghost books. We have read several and thoroughly enjoyed them. Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Zocat
Nostalgic!
I just wanted to say that I am now a 30 something and remember reading this book when i was in my early teens! Read more
Published 5 months ago by GG020
A great fun story
Good fun childrens book with dark witches and wizards told in light funny way.
Set in the run up to Halloween with lots of magic and a good witch who desperately wants... Read more
Set in the run up to Halloween with lots of magic and a good witch who desperately wants... Read more
Published 16 months ago by rachelcreative
Which Witch - brilliantly funny and imaginative. Not just for...
Don't let the cover put you off. A great story for adults as well as for age 8 upwards children. I'm a grown up and read it cover to cover non stop as I was so engrossed. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Happy and Smiling
Wave of a wand
Compelling book and very grateful that is not a spinoff from Harry Potter. It is quite interesting and imagnitive. Read more
Published 22 months ago by MsTrinisoul
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the thing i love about this book so much is that it starts good and then gets better and better..........
Arriman the awful, wizard of the north is looking for a wife! Read more
Arriman the awful, wizard of the north is looking for a wife! Read more
Published 22 months ago
The Funniest Children's Book I Have Read for Years
I read Which Witch to my eight-year-old son over a period of a week, and we laughed so much every night. It is brilliantly witty, amusing and so humane as well. Read more
Published on 24 April 2009 by J. M. Young
Brilliant!
I know its wrong to write a review before getting your paws on a book- but I remember reading this when I was about nine, and absolutley loving it. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2008 by Ms. V. Lovatt
Review on Which witch by e.ibbotson
This book was funny. It was also kind of scary too, but at the same time, really really funny. I liked the part whereone of the witches sent her sister down the neverending hole,... Read more
Published on 7 April 2006 by fencergirllily
Frightfully funny!
Arriman the Awful, a wizard of great power and darkest evil, has grown bored with his life. Realizing that he needs a son to carry on the cause of darkness and evil, Arriman... Read more
Published on 14 April 2003 by Kurt A. Johnson
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