Wanda Coven’s Heidi Heckelbeck Casts a Spell is a magic story for 6 year olds about a girl who has had quite enough of the class meanie.<\/p>\n
It carries straight on from Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret, so that’s the one to read first. Heidi is a witch. So are her mum and her Aunt Trudy, and her Book of Spells was a present from her grandma, another witch (Dad and her little brother Henry are just regular people).<\/p>\n
And Heidi has a list. Melanie Maplethorpe called her smelly. She gave her five dirty looks for no reason. She got her cast as a scary apple tree in the class play. So Heidi finds a spell to make Melanie forget her lines on opening night.<\/p>\n
The tricky part is the ingredients. Three cornflakes. A black plastic spider. Two sour gummy worms. A puppy tooth! Watching Heidi sneak them out of the cereal box, Mum’s secret sweet drawer and a dog’s chew toy is half the fun.<\/p>\n
Aunt Trudy is lovely. She lives in a cottage that looks like a gingerbread house, keeps parrots and cats, and tells Heidi that witches have to solve their problems without magic first. Heidi says okay (but she’s very careful not to actually promise).<\/p>\n
There’s a new friend too. Bruce has a laboratory in his basement, a puppy called Frankie and a sticker he’s invented to track things on a webcam. And a bully on the school bus gets what’s coming to him, thanks to a pair of untied laces.<\/p>\n
Is getting your own back ever worth it? That’s what this one is really about, and it’s handled in a very gentle way. For any child who’s been so cross with someone that they wanted them to feel just as bad, there’s lots here to chat about.<\/p>\n
When they’re ready for more, Heidi Heckelbeck and the Cookie Contest is next. This time Heidi is desperate to win a baking competition at school, and Melanie has some very rude things to say about chocolate chunk cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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