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Miss Thornapple's School for Witches teaches everything that good witches need to know, from the physics of a broom in flight to the chemistry of potions. Some of the story's elements are overly familiar (e.g., traveling to school on a flying bus), and the text's couplets include a few awkward rhymes. Retro cartoonlike illustrations are sometimes effective, sometimes garish.