The Gruesome Green Witch by Patricia Coffin
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Overview: Like Alice’s rabbit hole, a closet in Puffin’s house is the entrance to a magic world. Here two eleven’year-old girls, Puffin and her best friend, Mole, meet a wondrous assortments of mythological characters—from the Wizard of Oz to Fafnir, the fearsome dragon of the Niebelungenleid. Pervading all is the malevolent influence of the Gruesome Green Witch, a beautiful and evil avocado-colored creature.
The girls are arrested for trying to do homework without working papers, and then meet Merlin the Magician, who teaches them how to concentrate. They go to a “Round Dance” at the bottom of the sea, and King Neptune invites them into the Rock Candy Grotto where eating sweet prevents cavities. Their guide throughout is a hand-high “tumpte,” a Swedish kind of elf, who they’ve saved from going up in smoke.
When the Gruesome Green Witch cast a spell over Matt, Puffin’s suspended-from-school older brother, the magic turns to horror. Only Puffin can rescue him, and only she knows what the price will be.
The tumpte, the trolls, and the Gruesome Green Witch are freely adopted from Swedish folklore by Patricia Coffin, and handsomely illustrated by Peter Parnall’s unique drawings.
Genre: Fiction > Children/Young Adult
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