WHICH WITCH?

A brilliantly witty tale of magic and marriage, the book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. 'Find me a witch!' cried Arriman the Awful, feared and handsome wizard of the North. He has decided to marry, but which witch will it be? Which witch has the darkest powers? To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition. Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing 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? For all Harry Potter fans and with lovely pencil drawings by Annabel Large. Ages 7-11 years, 250pp in imported Penguin paperback with remainder mark.