Winnie and Wilbur Whizz Bang Winnie

Winnie the Witch #1

by Laura Owen, Korky Paul (Illustrator)

Life is never dull for Winnie the Witch! In 'Hot Cross Winnie' a trip to the shops turns into a desperate hunt for a missing Wilbur; in 'Winnie's Book Day' a problem with reading doesn't stop Winnie from bringing stories to life for a whole class full of children; in 'Winnie Gets Cracking' she creates a 'chocodile' capable of laying chocolate eggs; and in 'Whizz-Bang Winnie' Winnie gets her skates on to speed past the motorised competition in a 'hot wheels' race. Four crazily funny stories featuring everyone's favourite witch, her big black cat, Wilbur, and a zany supporting cast of new characters. Korky Paul's exuberant black line illustrations complement the humour, slapstick, and moments of real drama that run through each story. Pure magic!

Genres: Childrens, Fantasy

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2008

About the author

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Reviews

[Sirkel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ma pole küll sihtrühm, aga aeg-ajalt otsin midagi lapselikku, lõbusat ja siirast. Siin raamatus oli mitmeid seiklusi, aga silme ees jooksis pigem virvenav film kui lugu. Mõtted hüplesid kiirelt järjest uuele teemadele ja vahepealne tuli kiirelt endal juurde mõelda. Illustratsioonid on lahedad ja sarja fännidel kerge järgmine teos üles leida.

[Emma Radford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good fun stories.

[Reelika Raimet · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Emily Guamán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Divertido.

[Mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I try not to read books in Chinese that were originally written in English and then translated into Chinese but this was a lovely collection of stories about a witch that I thought would be too fun to pass up. The book contained no pinyin but thankfully had the original English at the back as there were a lot of strange vocabularly words (like abracadabra) that naturally weren't in my Chinese-English dictionary! The book was also written in a handwriting style font which took some getting used to. A lot of the characters looked very different to their normal "printed look" which was also very good practice for reading a different style. While the vocabularly was quite difficult the grammar structures were very good. I found it really good practice for looking at the sentence order (particularly when they were quite different to the sentence order in English). I'm not sure if I will get the other Winnie books (there's 6 all together). It was good practice reading as I could read one of the short stories on my lunchbreak. However, the stories were not as great as I was hoping. Winnie seemed to be a wich mostly by eating gross things, there was nothing nice or spooky about her character. The stories, while having magic, were all quite normal and a bit absurd. The one I did like very much involved them going to a library and then Winnie reading a story about a rocket ship with a robot that was going to take people away to Mars.

[ijul (yuliyono) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oke, dua bintang buat ilustrasinya. Seru, kocak, nggemesin. Terutama ilustrasi untuk penanda halamannya yang gonta-ganti itu, hehehehe....

Klo dari ceritanya sih....ehmmm, entahlah, niatnya mau konyol tapi kok ya kurang ngocol...

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely reading for younger children.

[an · Rating 3 out of 5]

penyihir pengacau yang ujung-ujung na selalu jadi penyelamat juga

[Sinta Nisfuanna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ceritanya kurang menarik dan tidak 'menyihir' tapi yang sangat kusuka adalah ilustrasinya yang detail sekali, termasuk angka halaman yang juga diberi ilustrasi berbeda-beda. Ada satu bagian yang kusuka dari kalimat Winnie di bab "Winnie dan Hari Buku"

"Tahu tidak, Wilbur, ... Ada sihir yang lebih beragam ketimbang sihir Abrakadabra"
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"Kurasa cerita dalam buku-buku juga bisa menyihir."