LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Winnie the witch and her constant companion Wilbur the big black cat are off on holiday to an island in the middle of the ocean where the Worldwide Witches Festival is taking place. After days of singing and dancing, games, and delicious food, they don’t want to go home, so Winnie decides to take up some of the invitations she’s received, and they head off to visit her friends. They stay with Esmerelda in her tree house, with Anastasia on top of a mountain, and with Fatima, Fayza and Latifa in their castle by the sea. Then it’s everyone back to Winnie and Wilbur’s home for a huge party!
It’s always magical to go adventuring with Winnie and Wilbur and this story is packed with friends, fun and invention, every page of Korky Paul’s spellbinding artwork full of details and little treats. As Wilbur would say, ‘Purr, purr, purr.’
Andrea Reece
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Winnie and Wilbur: The Festival of Witches Synopsis
Winnie and Wilbur are on their annual visit to the Worldwide Witches' Festival, meeting witches (and their cats) from all over the globe! They have a wonderful time partying, dancing and learning new spells. When the festival is over, Winnie and Wilbur hop on their broomstick and zoom off on a magical mystery tour to visit their new friends in a tropical treehouse, a castle by the sea and a house on top of a mountain! When they arrive back home, it's much too quiet-but then there's a knock at the door.
A jubilant and joyful story celebrating diversity and friendship, as Winnie and Wilbur discover how magical it is to make new friends and be part of a global community of witches.
Korky Paul's intricate and spellbinding artwork is full of fun, mischief and mayhem! The best-selling Winnie and Wilbur series has been delighting readers both young and old since 1987 and Winnie and Wilbur have become favourite characters in homes and schools all over the world.
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9780192783837 |
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2nd March 2023 |
| Author: |
Valerie Thomas |
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Korky Paul |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
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Paperback |
| Pagination: |
32 pages |
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Press Reviews
Valerie Thomas Press Reviews
Praise for Winnie and Wilbur:
'Vivid and wondrous' - The Sunday Times
'Delightfully entertaining' - Books for Keeps
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About Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived there for most of her life, apart from six years spent in Europe, where she worked in England, France and Norway. She is a teacher, and has taught in primary, secondary, and special schools in Australia and England as well as lecturing in English Teaching Method in a Teachers’ College in Melbourne.
For many years she worked as an educational researcher and curriculum consultant in the area of spelling, and has written extensively on the subject. Her other main interest is travel. She has travelled to most corners of the world, and has written about her travels: the first piece of writing she had published was an account of her experience picking grapes for the champagne harvest in France.
In 1987 her phenomenally successful children’s book Winnie the Witch, illustrated by Korky Paul, was published by Oxford University Press and won the Children’s Book of the Year Award. It has since been translated into many languages around the world and become a children's classic.
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