Diary of an Accidental Witch

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Diary of an Accidental Witch

Perdita & Honor Cargill, illustrated by Katie Saunders

(Little Tiger)

Bea is delighted by her father’s gift of a journal. After all, it’s a way to chronicle their move to Little Spellshire, where Bea’s father’s will research extraordinary weather phenomena. What’s more, she soon makes a friend who’ll be attending the village Academy with her. Thus we begin reading her Diary of an Accidental Witch. 

Unfortunately, there’s an alarming error. It seems that Bea’s  enrolled for the wrong school. Otherwise, why else would she be attending The School of Extraordinary Arts? Not only is the curriculum unlike anything that might be expected, but Bea is entirely out of her depth! From the moment she arrives, colliding with a broom and thereafter collecting a frog, she’s all at sixes and sevens. It seems the only thing that makes it bearable is hiding in the broom cupboard at lunchtime with Stan (the frog). Certainly, the school dinners are entirely off limits! Then again, isn’t levitation, something that appears within Physics’ lessons, is completely unknown. What has Bea fallen into?

To make matters worse, her village friend, Ash, is appalled at Bea’s new school. It seems that it has some sort of reputation amongst the Academy pupils. Yet as we read Bea’s Diary of an Accidental Witch, an account of her first term, we begin to understand. However, we’re also rather panicked for her as Halloween arrives and then by her homework assignments. Thank heaven for Go… the game she learns in P.E!

Perdita and Honor Cargill have created a warm and witty witch novel, reminiscent of Everyday Magic and The Accidental Wizard.