A humorous handbook for witches, providing instruction in areas such as spells, superstitions, recipes, gardening, and glamour Grade 3-6 For readers who have digested The Witch's Catalog (Scholastic, 1976) by Bridwell, here is a more advanced, outrageously funny book for aspiring witches. It provides instructions, wildly illustrated with colorful cartoons, for spells, superstitions, recipes, gardening, and glamour. In a crazy mixture of realism and witchcraft, one finds, for example, a recipe for "dubious trifle," which gives directions for making flies from raisins and slivered almonds. Witches are portrayed basically as nasty and disgusting creatures, but they are never without a sense of humor. Their lives as portrayed in The Witch's Handbook are almost as inviting (but not as detailed) as those of the gnomes in Huygen's book (Abrams, 1977). Carolyn Jenks, Oyster River Elementary School, Durham, N.H. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Used Book in Good Condition