Review: All my licenses have expired-a few have been revoked...I'm a washed up has-been.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2012
Well this is a delightful chapter book. Chapters and chapters of witches ( mostly good witches) , witch things and witch action! Twins Herman and Nathaniel  ( yes after Melville and Hawthorne there father is a literature teacher ) all of 11 years old, one day assist a some what lost elderly lady, turns out she's a witch. The boy's mother had mysteriously vanished about a half a year earlier the boy's begin to think that just maybe there new friend Mrs Weatherby  being a witch and all may be able to help them. Unfortunately Agnes ( Mrs Weatherby's first name) seems to have not only lost a bit of her zest with age but her licenses to practice magic as well! She's not supposed to enchant, charm, transmogrify, levitate, mesmerise,  foretell or even prestidigitate! Bottom line she has been labeled a has-been and even has begun to believe it.  But  these are good lads, Agnes well  she's always been a good witch and the cause ( finding the children's lost mother ) is a good cause, and being  a good cause it certainly must be addressed, addressed some how, addressed some way but not some when but now! Things get complicated, then things get worse , it's time for all experienced, once upon a time useful witches to be useful again! It really is a good story told with respect for pretty much everyone deserving of respect with a nice charming ending. It is a grandparent / grandchild bonding book and worth reading just for something fun and nice.  I am not certain why I originally  downloaded this book but I am glad I did.