Witch Baby and Me After Dark

by Debi Gliori

Overview

Lily is 9. Her sister Daisy is 1. And she's no ordinary baby. Somehow, when she was born, something went rather wrong... and now Daisy is a Witch Baby. Nobody knows this but Lily - she's the only one who can see when Daisy makes the fridge float in the air, or turns people into slugs, or summons up her very stinky dog Waywoof...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781407050720
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication date:	06/10/2010
Series:	Witch Baby , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

Debi Gliori is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the very popular Mr Bear series. She won the Children's Book Award picture book section, and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1997. Her backlist in Doubleday/Corgi includes Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep and The Very Small. Pure Dead Magic, which introduced the Strega-Borgias, was her first novel. It was followed by Pure Dead Wicked, Pure Dead Brilliant, Deep Trouble, Deep Water and Deep Fear.

Debi lives in Scotland, near Edinburgh.

Editorial Reviews

"A charming comedy about sibling jealousy, it takes a six-year-old's belief in magic and in passionate feelings equally seriously."  —Times on Witch Baby and Me

EBOOK COMMENTARY

"A charming comedy about sibling jealousy, it takes a six-year-old's belief in magic and in passionate feelings equally seriously."  —Times on Witch Baby and Me

From the Publisher

Gr 4–6—Three witches from Ben Screeeiiighe, a wildly remote area of Scotland, are searching for a baby. Their plan, at first, is to cast a spell on an infant, allow the human parents to raise her, then take over her witchy education when she becomes older. Humans cannot see most of their spells, or so they predict. But the witches do not foresee that Baby Daisy MacRae's sister was born under a blue moon; she can see their magic, and knows that her sister is a witch even if no one believes her. And so begins this quirky series about a family who leaves the city for the Scottish highlands where they plan to carry on quiet, normal lives. Daisy finds a ghost dog, appropriately called WayWoof (because she cannot say Werewolf) that only she and Lily can see at first, but everyone smells. Gliori imaginatively dreams up spells that a toddler witch can perform, leaving hilarious consequences for her big sister to explain or fix. In After Dark, Lily and her friend Vivaldi take Daisy out for Halloween only to divert their attention from trick-or-treating to searching for lost WayWoof. Readers will laugh at Lily's imagination and her attempts to keep people from finding out that her sister is really a spell-casting witch-in-training. Entertaining line drawings complement the texts. Fun choices for readers who like silly fantasies.—Delia Carruthers, Roxbury Public Library, Succasunna, NJ

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