What Is This Book?

[incognito]

No, it's definitely not Interstellar Pig -- I'm a Sleator fan and I remember that particular book. Thanks for trying, though.

[LAX]

I'm looking for a series of illustrated children's books about a witch. It was from England and very funny.
What I remember most about the witch book was it has little interactive features, you could take letters out of envelopes and read them..stuff like that. The witch had a flyer or something advertising a sale at a witch supply shop and there were things like boots in four colors - only all the colors were variations of black.

[sumire]

Sounds like The Jolly Postman to me.

[Maddiemoo]

Woah! I hadn't even realized I had forgotten The Jolly Postman until just now, heh. God, that book was fabulous!

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Speaking of children's books about witches, does anyone remember a short chapter book (probably around third grade level) about a little witch who goes to school? It was published between the 50s and 70s (I'm assuming) and I remember reading an oversized yellow hardcover edition, illustrated.

The little witch lives by herself (with a cat, a bat, or another sort of witchy animal) and decides to go to school. One of the girls she meets there is named Karen. There's an outbreak of chicken pox in the classroom, and the little witch is lonely because she's immune to it.

[chonies]

desireelegume, do you mean Dorrie the Little Witch?

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Thanks, chonies. Reading the descriptions of the Dorrie books, I'm not sure that those are the ones ... the witch I'm thinking of goes to an ordinary school, not a magic one. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[LAX]

Oct 11, 2009 15:56:03 GMT -4 sumire said:

Sounds like The Jolly Postman to me.

Yes, I think thats it. Thank you. Don't know why I focused on the witch part of it. Stupid faulty childhood memories.

[kanding]

Oct 8, 2009 21:55:40 GMT -4 LAX said:

I'm looking for a series of illustrated children's books about a witch. It was from England and very funny.
What I remember most about the witch book was it has little interactive features, you could take letters out of envelopes and read them..stuff like that. The witch had a flyer or something advertising a sale at a witch supply shop and there were things like boots in four colors - only all the colors were variations of black.

Speaking of taking letters out of envelopes, does anyone remember a short series of books (maybe three) about a man and a woman and the letters they send each other? I'm not sure they ever meet and there may be some timebending in the story, but the books/attached letters were beautiful. The story left me yawning, but the books themselves were nice.

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Oct 11, 2009 20:32:40 GMT -4 chonies said:

desireelegume, do you mean Dorrie the Little Witch?

Aww. Just had to post that I loved the Dorrie books so much as a little girl. I was at home sick with my grandmother when I was in the first grade and since I was a voracious reader at that age already she went and got me several of those books to read while I was in bed. I remember that I felt really awful but was willing to suffer through it all just so I could keep reading.

After that day whenever I was home sick my grandma would go to the library and load up on all kinds of books for me and it became our ritual up. In fact, I moved up here 12 years ago to help her after my grandpa died and if I was home sick from work she would head off to the library for me. I love my grandma. She is so very very awesome. She and my mom both instilled a love of reading in me and the irony now is that neither of them have good enough vision to read much anymore, particulary my grandma as she is about 95% blind and my vision is so horrible and getting worse each year I worry about following in their footsteps.


So, to any moms or grandmas out there, the Dorrie books can be a good bonding experience for you too!