By Hilary McKay (author) , Mike Phillips (illustrator) Part of the 4U2read series
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Reading age 8, interest age 9+ . A brilliantly fun whimsical comedy featuring Tom, Ellie and their cat who are whisked off to stay with the dreaded aunt, aka The Sticky Witch. Readers of 9+ with a slightly younger reading age will laugh their socks off at the humour in this touching tale.
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Tom, Ellie and Whiskers the cat have to stay with Aunt Tab, aka The Sticky Witch. The Sticky Witch has lots of rules but the most important one is: "stay away from my treacle pond". When Tom and Ellie investigate, what they find is beyond their wildest imaginings!
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A fun whimsical comedy.
“Few writers, if indeed any, write as warmly and accurately about family life as Hilary McKay, or with such humour. Her books feel both utterly timeless, and utterly contemporary” – Books For Keeps
Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Skylarks' War , the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Ange l respectively. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings.
You can read her character Rose Casson's blog by clicking here - and Rose's tweets on the right hand side of this page.
Q & A with Hilary McKay What is your earliest childhood memory? Watching steam trains with my grandfather. He died before I was two years old, so that is a very early memory.
If you could be any animal, what would it be and why? Well, who could turn down the gift of flight? Or travel without luggage? Or a life spent following the sun? Without doubt, I would be a swallow. I realise this means a lifetime of eating flies, but I think it would be worth it.
What is your dream holiday destination? I would start at the Sangre de Cristo mountains in New Mexico and travel South through Central America, along the coast to Peru, then down through Chile across to the Falklands and on to Antarctica, which I would circumnavigate. Then I would travel North to New Zealand where I would spend a long time warming up and then across to Australia. I would spend quite a long time in Sydney and go up into the Blue Mountains (I might go sapphire hunting there) and then to the Great Barrier Reef (of course). That would be far enough for me.
What is your morning routine? Alas, I do not have a morning routine.
If you could have one special talent, what would it be? Singing, undoubtedly. That would make me the happiest. But I have a friend whose talent is languages and I envy that one very much.
Likes: Millions of things! Books, cats, honey, letters from readers (hint, hint), real music, apples, swimming in cold water, chocolate coated ginger biscuits, trees.
Dislikes: Putting things away, litter, loud TV, hot rooms, being told what to think.
3 words that best descibe me: Untidy, happy, hopeful!
A Secret that not many people know: I am a VERY slow reader!
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Tom, Ellie and Whiskers the cat have to stay with Aunt Tab, aka The Sticky Witch. The Sticky Witch has lots of rules but the most important one is: "stay away from my treacle pond".
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Sticky Witch 4u2read and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
The Sticky Witch 4u2read features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 7+ readers
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The Sticky Witch 4u2read was written by Hilary McKay and published by Barrington Stoke Ltd
The Sticky Witch 4u2read has 63 pages
Yes it is part of 4U2read series
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