The Wompananny Witches Make One Mean Pizza
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Anita and Winnifred Wompananny are kitchen witches who spend their days whipping up all kinds of delicious treats. Rarely do the Wompananny Witches venture outside, for they have a crippling fear of the wild children in their neighborhood. One day, a run-in with a few particularly rambunctious kids sends the witches into a panic, so they blow off some steam by cooking up their very favorite meal: a good old-fashioned pizza pie. But they’ve unintentionally baked their anxious, fearful, freaked-out feelings right into the crust and created one mean pizza! The pie escapes the kitchen, wreaking havoc across town, until one group of hungry children devises a plan to show the pizza what they’re made of. A deliciously saucy tale of friendship and courage, The Wompananny Witches Make One Mean Pizza is a wacky Halloween story that packs laughs all year long.
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In Palmer's quirky children's book debut, sisters Anita and Winnifred Wompananny are purple-skinned, green-haired witches, one tall and lanky, the other short and squat. They love preparing pizza in their Brooklyn home, which resembles a giant, wonky potbelly stove, wedged between brownstones. Terrified of the neighborhood children, the witches cower when they come to their door selling cookies and inadvertently pound their "fearful, freaked-out feelings" into the pizza dough. The result: "one mean pizza," which promptly takes off rolling down the block, cheese puddles in its wake, before entering the park and landing atop a carousel. Palmer's kinetic cartoons revel in the messy, cheesy chaos, which leads the sisters to realize that pizza, children, and witches are actually a pretty tasty combination. It's a cheerfully offbeat story of common ground and uncommonly good pizza bringing diverse neighbors together. Ages 3 7.
