The Witch Family

"A very special book that is certain to give boundless pleasure." -- The Horn Book Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying "Heh-heh!"and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch, until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she'd better be good or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill -- as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make-believe made real. "Full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor -- a classic." -- Library Journal "To those children who move unhesitatingly between the real and unreal -- the story with all its delicious witch lore will be pure delight." - Booklist Eleanor Estes (1906-1988), a children's librarian for many years, launched her writing career with the publication of The Moffats in 1941. Two of her books about the Moffats are Newbery Honorbooks, as is The Hundred Dresses. Estes won the Newbery Medal for Ginger Pye in 1954. Jane Jacobs is a versatile actress and singer, with fiction, history and romance titles to her audiobook credits. Her voice can also be heard in radio and television commercials, interactive games, and a wide variety of other multi-media projects.