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32 pp.
| Hyperion |
August, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-7868-0418-1$$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Howard Fine.
With a witch's brew of wordplay, alliteration, and deliberately bad jokes, Palatini stirs up trouble when two witch-sisters get together for their "howliday party." The sisters are grownups, but you wouldn't know it, so quickly do the taunts--and pillows--fly: "You're a fright for sore eyes!" While the text is more a succession of one-liners and tart rejoinders than it is a story, reading it aloud is lots of fun. Fine's dynamic paintings are as brassy as the text.