She acts her part, too, swaggering, greedy, and just plain impatient, as she brooms off to Old MacDonald's Farm in search of eight plump porkers for her favorite pie. Greedy witch and wolf both get what they deserve in this thoroughly enjoyable romp that turns a popular nursery song on end.' School Library Journal, Starred, 'This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill Halloween picture book, even though Gritch the Witch certainly looks her part (though a bit more trendy), with a pointy hat, a gap-toothed grin, vicious green fingernails, and two beauteous moles on her face.

' Booklist, ALA 'The exuberant illustrations are colorful and action-filled. A sardonically humorous, rip-roaring yarn that can be enjoyed all year round. So will Fine's bold, expressive artwork, which gives wicked Gritch a comic audacity that makes her trouncing all the better.

Instead, she finds a wolf, whom she slyly invites home: 'I always enjoy having a wolf for lunch.' The wry, peppery dialogue is simply great ('Look, Shorty, I've been quack-quacked here, moo-mooed there, and clucked-clucked everywhere all over this farm' ), and Palatini's allusions to popular children's stories from The Wizard of Oz to the 'Three Little Pigs' will delight kids. When hungry Gritch arrives at the farm, she can't find a single pig. But Palatini deftly turns the tables on Gritch, whose own sense of importance (and the skywritten warning 'Surrender Piggies!' ) gives her victims time to implement a plan to save their bacon. Greedy witch and wolf both get what they deserve in this thoroughly enjoyable romp that turns a popular nursery song on end., 'This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill Halloween picture book, even though Gritch the Witch certainly looks her part (though a bit more trendy), with a pointy hat, a gap-toothed grin, vicious green fingernails, and two beauteous moles on her face.

Greedy witch and wolf both get what they deserve in this thoroughly enjoyable romp that turns a popular nursery song on end.' School Library Journal, Starred, The exuberant illustrations are colorful and action-filled. 'The exuberant illustrations are colorful and action-filled.

Piggie pie by margie palatini