Which Way to Witch School?
K-Gr 2–In rhyming couplets, Santoro presents Miss Thornapple's School for Witches. The girls are seen as they prepare for the journey (“Packing is simple,/it's done just like that./The trick is to get all your things in your hat”), travel by flying bus, and then engage in such activities as dining on eyeballs and tentacles, being able to swim in a swamp, and learning the physics behind flying broomsticks. The rhymes often seem forced (“Miss Zorch is their teacher in chemistry class,/which for a witch is important to pass”), making this an awkward read-aloud. Santoro's background as an animator is evident in both the perspectives and in the rather flat quality of the art, which resembles still shots from cartoons. Better stories about witches and about school abound.Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ© Copyright 2010.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.  No redistribution permitted.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.