Heidi Heckelbeck Gets the Sniffles

Heidi Heckelbeck #12

by Wanda Coven, Priscilla Burris (Illustrator)

Everyone’s favorite witch has the sniffles! Will she be able to sneeze out a spell to cure herself in time for the fall harvest festival?

Heidi Heckelbeck is all excited about Brewster’s fall festival. She can’t wait to go through the haunted barn with her friend Lucy. But when Heidi starts to sniffle, and then sneeze, and then ache all over, it looks like she’s going to miss out on all the fun. Will a spell do the trick and get her back on her feet again?

With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, 1st Grade

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2014

Reviews

[Charlotte]

I thought lucy was a real ghost and i got so scared because Heidi was sick so they had to make Heidi happy!!!!!!!!! At the end Lucy was not a real ghost after all !!!!!!

[Sharon]

Josie likes these - wanting to understand why. Not actually horrible. Some sweet and funny parts. Very simple language and sentences, mostly describing things and actions. A few obvious vocabulary words sprinkled in. Definitely reads like a school Reading Book. Illustrations cute and not too obnoxiously so. Witchery confined to execution of spells, very low key part of story - really fairly extraneous except recipes amusingly gross and results unexpected. Fact that mother and aunt are witches also treated extremely low key.

[Amelia]

The beginning was a little sad, but I liked the ending a lot. I think the ending was cool and kind of funny because Heidi's friends and family dress up to make a haunted house and she doesn't realize it is them. She only realizes that one is her dad. They made a haunted house because Heidi missed the fall festival and she really wanted to go to it but she had the sniffles. It ended up being her favorite haunted house so I felt really good for her that she was able to still do something fun.

[Katt Hansen]

How awful for a kid when they get sick and have to miss out on something really fun. For Heidi it's missing out on a haunted house because of a cold. What her family does to help her through this hard time is really special and unique. I think that's one of the things I really like best about the Heidi Heckelbeck books, is how much her family is supportive of her, no matter what. Really special book and one of my favorites.

[Katie]

I read this book with Jane, since she's old enough for chapter books but still doesn't like books without any pictures. This is one of those early chapter books that still has lots of pictures. I didn't love it, but I thought it was cute. And Jane has started reading some of Heidi's books by herself now too. Good beginning chapter books for 1st graders.

[Maggie]

Loved this book! Super awesome!

[Cindy]

I like that there is "knitting" mentioned in this book. Wonderful what Heidi's family did to make her feel better.

[Erica]

Heidi gets sick and wants to go to the Fall Festival. She fights it for all it’s worth. I think this is the first book my daughter and I have read where one of Heidi’s spells doesn’t go as planned.

[Jen Lynn]

Read out loud to my 7 year old daughter. She enjoyed it a lot!

[Arin Kate (IT'S FALLLL)]

Guys, did anyone else love these books as a kid??? I read them all and just realized I haven't marked them as read. I do apologize in advance for invading your feed with all of these. Love y'all! <3

[Cora S.]

🤩😍 amazing

[Holly Letson]

3.5*

Heidi has a cold, and cannot attend the Fall Festival. So, her family and friends plan and create a haunted house for her in the garage after she gets better. Must say that I loved Aunt Trudy as Raven and Lucy as "The Ghost".

[Kaytee]

i liked this book because it had a lot of details. heidi got a cold. her mom and dad told her to go to bed. she found a book of spells under her book and tried to find a spell that would prevent colds. she mixed the spell and said the magic words and drank the ingredients and got better.

[Emily]

Heidi Heckelbeck is a young and fun witch. She gets a cold and can't go to the fall festival. Great for fans of Junie B. Jones and Amelia Bedlia- 1-3 graders

[Kelly Carey]

I wish I knew a magical spell to cure colds. I would even accept the side effect that results when Heidi uses the wrong ingredients.