Pongwiffy and the Spell of the Year

Pongwiffy #3

by Kaye Umansky, Chris Smedley (Illustrator)

Pongwiffy finds an old magic spell when she is forced to spring clean her hovel. But old-fashioned ingredients and a vulture's feather and a cat's whisker are hard to come by, especially when they belong to the familiars of other witches. Another tale of Pongwiffy - the witch of dirty habits.

Genres: Childrens, Fantasy, Magic

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Umansky again manages again to captivate me in another of the hilarious Pongwiffy books. The lines are very funny and quotable, and the characters are definitely not one-dimensional.

[Shahrun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious adventure with Pongwiffy. Love the journey she went on to collect ingredients to make her spell of the year. It all ends in typical Pongwiffy style. I did appreciate the illustrations but prefer (for this series) the work of who ever did them (first?) when I was a child. They fit better.

[Tessa Comley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is really interesting and great for light reading!

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this as much as I did as a child, with Pong always good for a light read! I'd actually forgotten the twist at the end so got a good giggle out of that!

[Readers Avenue · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took a little trip down memory lane with this book, I had read it as a child - and parts of the story did come back to me, but not enough to ruin the reading experience, or spoil the story at the end. I remembered the illustrations more than anything.

Silly and fun, this was a great read with an interesting cast of unique characters that kept the story moving forward and each added their own eccentric elements to the plot.

I loved the "quest" element of her collecting all the ingredients for the spell, it gave it a good fantasy feel which, now I think about it, might have been one of the precursors to my loving the fantasy genre so much.

Great book for kids and adults alike!

[Ruth Mackay · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a kid I loved the pongwiffy stories and had many of them on cassette. I was browsing audiobooks for a motorway journey and decided a bit of childhood reminiscing was in order. As always I loved it :)

[Pong]

Seminal work...

[Ronak Pawar · Rating 5 out of 5]

whats..the english used in dialogue...but its nice.........