Rhonda Chalek Greenberg

Matilda the witch is thrilled to be chosen by the Witch Watcher's Committee to compete for the honor of being the Halloween Witch, and riding a supersonic broom across the night sky in this slim holiday picture book. Then her sister Lavinia arrives, informing Matilda that she must take care of her niece, Enchanta, while she (Lavinia) heads off for a cruise. When the curious Enchanta uses a spell she shouldn't, creating a second Matilda, chaos ensues. Will Matilda manage to give her speech and win the contest? And what will she do about her mischievous double, who doesn't want to be spelled away...?

Published in 1988, Which Witch is Which?: A Halloween Sticker Storybook appears to be one of only three published titles—the other two, also published in 1988, were the picture book Peeper and the Giant Easter Egg and a boxed set of Flintstones board books—from author Rhonda Chalek Greenberg. I was not familiar with her name, before stumbling across this book, as part of my perennial search for new material to read for my ongoing "witchy witches" project. Leaving all that aside, I wasn't terribly impressed by this one. I can see some children enjoying it, particularly as it comes with stickers they can play with, but to me it read like an animated television episode in book form, with a text that was a little too wordy for a book of this length, a story that didn't really speak to me, and cartoon-style artwork from illustrator Jodi MacCallum that wasn't to my taste. On the whole, I think there are far better witchy tales out there for the picture book set.… (lisätietoja)