Books with author Patricia Coombs

When a red-eyed Goblin peeks out of the laundry basket, the Big Witch faints and Cook predicts disaster. The evening's Tea and Magic Show will be ruined! Anxious to help, Dorrie offers to Goblin-sit only to discover that it's a bigger job than she had bargained for. After a series of mishaps and miscalculations, Dorrie finally saves the day in this hilarious mixture of mischief and magic.

Patricia Coombs mixes more magic to delight her many readers and turns the tables on the Blue Witch, who had changed Cook into a cup of sugar. "Get your cloak this minute and come with me," the Blue Witch said to Dorrie, "or I'll turn you into a turtle!" But Dorrie was a witch's child, and knew something about magic herself. Before Mildred's evil spell began to work Dorrie found some powerful reducing powder that made the Blue Witch shrink...and shrink...and shrink... And at the witches' party Dorrie won First Prize for Witch Catching--a shiny little gold cauldron.

Meet Dorrie the Little Witch in this brand-new hardback edition of a much-loved magical classic. The perfect gift for all Dorrie fans. Dorrie surprises her mother, the Big Witch, and Cook by putting on a play with her cat, Gink. But Dorrie accidentally ruins her mother's costume for the Fancy Dress ball that evening. Will Dorrie be able to come up with a winning plan for a new costume in time? Also available to collect in these new hardback editions: Dorrie and the Blue Witch, Dorrie and the Wizard's Spell and Dorrie and the Dreamyard Monsters in the perfect classic series for fans of Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch. Patricia Coombs was born in 1926 in Los Angeles. She attained a BA and MA in English Literature at the University of Washington. Her first children's story, Dorrie's Magic, was published in 1962. It was inspired by and written for her two daughters, as were the following 28 books in the Dorrie the Little Witch series.

Do you think children ever wonder what their lost loved ones are saying to them? I know I do.It's never easy to watch a child grieve over the loss of a loved one and more often than not the issue is avoided and not talked about because it's just easier that way. But children need reassurance and hope during these difficult times.This book was created and designed to do just that. Written from the perspective of a lost loved one, "I Can See You From The Stars" is the call for hope these children need to help encourage them while on their journey through grief.

It was Halloween, and Dorrie was ready for her first flying lesson, but her mother said, "You're too young to fly. Maybe next year." The Big Witch was busy fixing a princess costume for Dorrie to wear to the Halloween Pageant for the Great Sorceress. But flying had more appeal for Dorrie than being a princess and learning to curtsy. If no one else would teach her, she just might have to teach herself. Her awkward attempt to fly put her right at the center of a plot by some Halloween demons. From her first encounter with the demons to the moment when the Big Witch blew out the candle in Dorrie's bedside pumpkin, the little witch had one of the most exciting Halloweens ever.

Dorrie and her cat Gink are left all alone to guard the Amazing Magic Elixir, which can make people hex-proof, spell-proof, potion-proof and INDESTRUCTIBLE. They are too busy watching and stirring the cauldron to notice the greenish face outside the tower window. The evil Green Wizard has come to steal the Magic Elixir! Some surprising changes are in store for Dorrie as she battles to save the Elixir. But how the Green Wizard is out-witted turns out to be the biggest surprise of all.

One day Dorrie, the little witch, wanted to have a picnic, but it was raining. "I guess I'll have to fix the weather," she told her cat, Gink. And up she climbed, high into the tower, to the secret room where her mother, the Big Witch, made magic. It was dark and spooky up there with bats flying all around. Dorrie shut the door tight and began to mix a magic potion. (She couldn't find a recipe for fixing weather in the Big Witch's Book of Magic, but she mixed two others together and hoped they would work.) "Abracadabra blinkety-blue," Dorrie chanted as she stirred. Suddenly there was a loud crash of thunder. Then pink lightning zig-zagged all over the room, the wind whistled and blew and dark clouds began to gather. "Oh, oh!" said Dorrie, "something is going wrong." It certainly was. Outside the sun was shining, but inside the rain was pouring down. Dorrie had fixed the weather--and the Big Witch got home just in time!

One day the Little Witch, Dorrie, who had a bad habit of meddling with her mother's magic, decided she would be good all day. But, as luck would have it, that was the very day Aunt Agra chose to come to visit. And though Dorrie tried and tried, she just couldn't please Aunt Agra with anything. "Look at her!" Aunt Agra said. "She hasn't touched her sandwich. She hasn't drunk her milk. And look at her face! She's been into your magic again. She's turning green!" But this time Dorrie hadn't meddled with the Big Witch's magic at all. This time Dorrie really felt sick. It was odd, though -- for the minute the genial old Witch Doctor arrived, she began to feel better. And after taking only two of the chocolate peppermints which he prescribed, Dorrie was almost entirely over her bad case of Auntitis. But most astonishing of all was the way the Witch Doctor cured Aunt Agra!

Eggs all over the floor!!! Cook threw up her hands--and the little witch Dorrie and her cat Gink were in trouble! It was the Big Witch's birthday and now her cake would not be ready on time--in fact, there might not be a cake at all, for Cook had no more eggs. Dorrie and Gink decided to help by getting more eggs from the Egg Witch, but Thinnever Vetch was lurking in the forest, waiting for an opportunity to make mischief. And this is just what she does, with Dorrie, the Big Witch, Cook, and the Egg Witch all in danger of coming under her wicked spell. How Dorrie outwits Thinnever Vetch is an exciting, chaotic, funny tale that young witch fans will savor.

On the day of the Library Bazaar and Tea, Dorrie, the little witch, is too busy to get into trouble. She is so busy that she doesn’t even notice when her mother, the Big Witch, disappears. By accident, the Big Witch has taken the Wizard Wink’s magic potion and turned into a teacup for a thousand years. Even if Dorrie can find out who bought the teacup, how will she break the spell? Luckily, the fat witch with the sunglasses knows a secret about the Wizard Wink, and she volunteers to help.

Dorrie, the little witch, and everyone else in Witchville were having nightmares. So Dorrie's mother decided to conjure up the Dream Witch, and see what could be done about it. But, in her headlong way, the Big Witch rushed off to the conjuring at Witches' Meadow, leaving behind a mix-up of cloaks and potions that only a quick-witted little witch like Dorrie could straighten out. For Dorrie and her cat Gink soon found themselves in the Dreamyard, surrounded by an unruly mob of nightmare monsters. How Dorrie subdued them leads to the satisfying conclusion of another delightful story by the popular author-artist.