The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 25, 2017

Review

This is a great book to use as a read aloud. It is a series of short stories that was written by Terry Pratchett when he was 17 years old. Many of the stories have very humorous foo notes. In the Witch's Vacuum Cleaner, there is a conjuror who gets a spell cast on himself. He now can do real magic, but he has no control over it. The story says, " ... was generally very good at that sort of magic that's learned by hard practice in front of a mirror." The footnote says, " And even harder in front of people, for not many mirrors shout things like"Rubbish!" And if your mirror does, you probably don't need to worry about whether or not you can learn to do magic tricks. Knowing how to run away very fast would be a more useful skill." There are fourteen stories in the book. It was published in 2016, but the cover was published in 2017.

Overall Book Score: very good