SuitabookThe Wompananny witches make one mean pizza
Jennie Palmer
- Reading
- Read together if your child may want to pause around panic or threatening-seeming action. Afterwards, invite them to compare the witches’ reactions with the children’s way of tackling the problem.
- Themes
- Fear becoming disruptive: The witches’ fearful feelings are unintentionally baked into a pizza, which then escapes and causes trouble. The premise gives feelings a comic, fantastical consequence, but does not establish whether the story treats fear itself critically, sympathetically or in another way.
- Courage and cooperation: A group of hungry children devises a plan to deal with the escaped pizza. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The witches experience a crippling fear and panic, while the escaped pizza wreaks havoc. The tone is described as wacky and laugh-focused, but the intensity of these scenes is not clear.