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Awhimsical rhymed story about a group of joyful and mischievous witches who go out for a walk in town. They shop and sit in a café almost like ordinary people. However, their witchy, wacky character is expressed through their mischievious playfulness (walking on walls, in and out of a TV screen) and their uninhibited, at times nonsense language. They seem to be enjoying themselves immensely, giggling, singing and breaking all rules. Yet not everything is harmonious: One after the other they are caught in different places—on a rooftop, in a mall, in a café. Eventually the last witch, feeling lonely without her friends, climbs on her broom to rescues all the others. The group diminishes in descending order and re-gathers in a symmetrical ascending one. At the end of a very eventful and tiresome day they return home to prepare a delicious soup of turnips, crocodiles’ tails and a smelly old shoe. Having planned their next adventure they comb their hair, put on their pajamas like wellbehaved girls and fall asleep. | | | Title | | Five Wacky Witches | | | | Author’s Last Name | | Chacham | | | | Author's First Name | | Ronit | | | | Language(s) | | Hebrew | | | | Genre | | children | | | | Publisher (Hebrew) | | Ayalot | | | | Year of Publication (Hebrew) | | 1993 | | | | No. Pages | | 32 | | | | Book title - Hebrew (phonetic) | | Chamesh Mechashefot Halchu Le-Tayel | | | | Representation | | Represented by ITHL | | |
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| Translations | | English: The Best Children's Books in the World (anthology), New York, Abrams, 1996; New York, Carnegie Hill Press, 1998 |
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