Although her mother and father and annoying brother Nick all insist that she should be something other than a witch for Halloween - she's always a witch, they tell her - young Jenny is determined. In fact, she'd love to be a real witch, and is always practicing her magic words and spells. When a real witch, complete with flying broomstick, shows up during trick-or-treating, offering to switch places, Jenny jumps at the chance, only to discover that witchy activities aren't as fun as she'd imagined. The little witch, in the meantime, finds the loving warmth of Jenny's family a little difficult to take...

A book I would never have known about, let alone picked up, had I not found it while searching for the homophones "witch" and "which" in my library database, W.K. Jasner's Which Is the Witch is an early chapter-book, published in 1979, and divided into three sections. I cannot say, truth be told, that I found the narrative that involving (quite the reverse, in fact), although there is nothing wrong with it either. The artwork, done in black and white, is rather dreary, and likewise unappealing to me. I'm glad I requested this (it only took a few minutes to read, after all), because now I won't be wondering what that other "witch/which" book was all about, but I can't say I recommend it that highly. Out of print, and likely to stay that way... ( )