The Witch Family

By: Eleanor Estes

Narrated by: Jane Jacobs

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.

©2007 Eleanor Estes (P)2007 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

childhood classic

This is cute, action packed children's story that's as fun now as when I was a kid. The narrator is fine when she's telling the story, but her character voices are very annoying. Malachi, the bumble bee, has a particularly irritating, grating voice. A kid might not mind, though.