Once that one is done, I will start on Book Three which is going to be all about celebrating Halloween for the first time in her new human village. The book has plenty of drawings accompanying the story, as well as being broken into chapters which are ideal for young readers moving into longer books. This was very funny because Bella made a whole cast of hilarious characters after saving a hopeless kitten with ‘1’spell . Once you take a vanishing potion; for instance, you can’t just stop being invisible when it suits you.

Bella Broomstick – School Spells | BookTrust Bella Broomstick – School Spells | BookTrust

Follow Bella’s magical, funny adventures as she tries to make sense of life in Merrymeet Village alongside Rascal, the mischievous kitten, always ready to lend a paw. I have almost finished the second book in the Bella Broomstick series – where we see her go off to school and make a new best friend. The use of magic reflects fundamental questions at the heart of children’s fiction and in the child’s own development too.

Bella Broomstick doesn’t have as many pages as the Shrinking Violet books – an ideal size for a bookworm like H to finish in ONE DAY! And she’s obsessed with things no good witch would ever need…like toothbrushes, fluffy slippers, and a pink flamingo pen. Think of the glorious comic havoc caused every time Samantha twitched her nose in the television series Bewitched. It may be in the strange rules and moral uncertainty of the world they come from or in nothing more than a little whiff of naughtiness, but it is there.

Bella Broomstick by Lou Kuenzler. - Making It Up Bella Broomstick by Lou Kuenzler. - Making It Up

When I do school visits, children often come up with brilliant ideas of things they could measure themselves in.I met Lou in 2014 at Blogfest, and she kindly sent H a selection of Shrinking Violet goodies, where we also chatted about Princess Disgrace and how she has to go to school to learn how to be a princess, doing such things as training her unicorn and learn not to be clumsy. Luckily for Bella, her new foster parents are much kinder than her mean, old, witchy Aunt Hemlock (who always served frog’s spawn porridge for breakfast).

Bella Broomstick | Summer Reading Challenge Bella Broomstick | Summer Reading Challenge

I liked this book because I like how she is a horrible witch and she doesn't have warts like her aunt Hemlock but that makes her, her. H was really excited to get to ask Lou Kuenzler some questions too – and Lou herself tells us more about Bella Broomstick. As I have only just finished writing Bella Broomstick in English, it has not been translated into any other languages yet.This post is part of the Bella Broomstick blog tour – see the banner for other fab bloggers taking part. Let’s leave the final word for Bella Broomstick to H –“I liked when she went to the human world, it was funny and not scary. Behind these friendly central characters, lurks the longer darker tradition of Macbeth’s crones or terrible fairy tale figures like the witch in Hansel and Gretel. My new funny series Bella Broomstick is about a young witch who is so bad at magic, she is expelled from the Magic Realm and sent off in disgrace to the Person World to be fostered by human beings instead. Ants are another good one, but it might take a while to train them all to stand in a nice neat line while you measured yourself against them.