The Witch Family, Eleanor Estes
The Witch Family, Eleanor Estes
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The Witch Family

Author: Eleanor Estes

Narrator: Jane Jacobs

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/17/2025

Synopsis

Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying “Heh-Heh!” and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away… by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch…until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she’d better be good-or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill…as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make-believe made real.

About Eleanor Estes

Eleanor Estes (1906-1988) grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, which she renamed Cranbury for her classic stories about the Moffat and Pye families. A children’s librarian for many years, she launched her writing career with the publication of The Moffats in 1941. Two of her outstanding books about the Moffats—Rufus M. and The Middle Moffat—were awarded Newbery Honors, as was her short novel The Hundred Dresses. She won the Newbery Medal for Ginger Pye.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 25, 2023

I cleverly did not tell my daughter that this was written by the author of The Hundred Dresses (a book I love and she HATES) until after I had read it aloud! But anyway, I had never heard of this, even though I love books about witches: worst witches, okay witches, little witches, sexy grownup witch......more

Goodreads review by Sheena on October 04, 2022

I loved this book as a child so for that reason alone, it's rated 5 stars. I decided to re-read it as an adult for nostalgic reasons but also because it's spooky season. I used to read it all the time and remember absolutely loving it. It's cute but I don't feel the same way that I used to sadly.......more

Goodreads review by Sayeeda on May 12, 2018

nothing made sense till the very end i did not like it......more

Goodreads review by lucy on November 01, 2023

One of the best kidlit classics ever, and certainly the best spooky one. Published in 1960, it’s about two little girls who banish Old Witch, head of all the witches, to a haunted house on a bare glass hill. There she must stay all year, doing nothing wicked, in order to be allowed out for the hurly......more

Goodreads review by LeahBethany on October 24, 2023

The Witch Family was a sweet little tale of the inventiveness of a little girl and her best friend and their imaginary witch's world.......more

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