Author: Frieda Hughes

Publisher: William Heinemann (1986)

Pages: 94

Miranda is a very ordinary little girl but she lives with Aunt Agatha who just happens to be a witch. Nothing bothers Miranda about her extraordinary home... except Edna, Aunt Agatha's uncontrollable sister, whose spells are such a disaster.

There was cow parsley with real cows' heads and elephant grass sprouting elephant trunks in the bathroom, blue plastic blossom on the cherry tree, and now the hens' beaks were tied up with worms! It was all getting too much - Edna would have to go.