Alex Gutteridge Boeken

Book one in a quirky, funny new witchy trilogy for beginning readers. Meet Witch Wendy. She's pretty much a disaster, as witches go. She muddles up her magic. She keeps crashing her broomstick. She doesn't even Smell as nasty as the other witches. Luckily, her cat Snowflake is a very smart kitty - and is always there to help her out of trouble...Witch Wendy needs a new hat. Hers is all floppy and keeps falling in front of her eyes, making her crash her broomstick. Then, one dark night, she lands by a pothole and finds a fantastic array of tall, pointy hats with bobbles on top. It's love at first sight - Wendy must have one! But these witches' hats aren't quite what they seem...

When Jess is knocked off her bicycle she finds herself at the gates of Heaven early - before her actual death date. Striking a deal with Darren, the angel of death on duty, she is allowed to return to earth to visit her friends and family, in invisible form, for five days. But saying goodbye is harder than Jess ever imagined, as she learns new things about her friends and family. And, when Darren offers Jess a last chance at life, she is faced with an impossible dilemma.

Pirate Polly wants to lose her L-plates and make the grade as a professional pirate. But she's got some horrible, hairy seafaring scoundrels on her tail who desperately try to foil Polly's plans. But lucky Polly has a clever crew: her pet rat Rufus and a scaredy-cat seadog called Howler. Together the trio will make sure Polly passes her pirate projects with flying colours. There are three shiver-yer-timbers adventures in this book: Fishy Business, Making Waves and Going Overboard.