The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches (I Can Read Level 4)

I bought this book in a book store for my 5 years daughter. I just grabbed it last second without looking beyond the cover so she will not be upset that her 3.5 years old brother got something and she did not. She liked the cover and the name of the book. And I liked the price in addition to that. We read the book as soon as we got home and what a hit it was with me and both my children. The first day I had to read it 3 times, for about a month after that I was reading it every night. Now we are in the second month and even while there is a `witch free' night once in a while, I am still reading it almost every day to either son or daughter or both. Another important point for me is that I enjoy reading the book too.

This is a nice book for beginners readers who are interested in reading Halloween books. It's a sweet story about a little girl witch who is trying to succeed in making spells. She struggles and finally learns to fly with a broom and cast spells - Yeah!

Though she's most often dressed as a princess, my daughter enjoyed this book so much that she wore a black witch's cape with her sleeping beauty costume on halloween. She liked the role-playing (we pretended to be witches in the book and mix evil brews and cast spells on her unsuspecting father) and she seemed to understand the underlying message of the importance of believing in oneself.

In the book THE WITCH WHO WAS AFRIAD OF WITCHES, there were three witches, Polly, the oldest, knew *everything*, Wog, the middles sister, could do *everything* the best. Then, of course, there was the youngest and the most picked on (at least by her sisters :( ) Wendy. This is a very good book, though I disagree that the notion that all witches wear black robes and hats, have warty green noses, and cackle evily. Some are short, wear glasses, and teach english. ^_^';; Heh heh, anyway.. as I said, this is a very good book, even for older children and teenagers alike.

These are my favorite exciting parts of the book. My first favorite part is when a ghost named Roger knocks on the door and says, "Trick or treat!" and Wendy says there's nobody home. My next favorite part is when they go to Roger's house to get a broom. When Wendy sits on the broom, and she cackles and gives a little jump, she zooms to the ceiling. Another favorite part is when Wendy puts spells on her sisters, Wog and Polly. Another one is when they come home limping and they think they lost their witch powers. My last favorite part is when they find Wendy and they say that her broom won't work and Polly gets on the broom and she can't take off and Wog gets on the broom and she can't take off either. Then Wendy gets on and cackles and gives a little jump and zooms off out the window faster than they ever flew.