7yo and I just finished reading it together, taking turns to read a page. It's a lovely book for an early reader, with the kind of fantasy experiences kids would love to experience themselves - talking to cats, flying in the air, and turning badly-made porridge into cookie dough with chocolate chips. There's a few poems of different types in the book - including a sonnet and a haiku - so there's some learning of other types of writing.
There's also some childish humour Zahra believing her mum is a vampire and her dad a zombie.
Daughter now wants Bushby to write more of these books, one where Zahra gets to become a witch herself - but I think the author (at the Edinburgh Book Festival) said there wasn't going to be a sequel.

Daughter chose to give it 5 stars and will read again.orla-s-books1 Tracy Lander225 3

Beautiful Barrington Stoke book aimed at dyslexic readers but also suited to less resilient readers for whom a middle grade novel is often too much. I have a perfectly capable y6 girl at school who loves Barrington Stoke books because they are short and she doesn't get bogged down. I am a really big fan of BStoke!
Zahra has won a competition to read out some poems at a festival, if she wins that she'll win £500 voucher for books for her school. On the train she sees a young girl, a witch? This girl has the same suitcase as her, and there the problem begins...
Zahra arrives at her hotel and opens her suitcase....but it's not her's....her clothes and her book with her poems in are with the girl witch!
Dad gives Zahra a t-shirt to wear to bed but she spills water on it, she puts on the pyjamas that are in the suitcase and things get really strange!
How can she find her own case?
A good story is the basis of all Barrington Stoke books and this is no exception. Aisha Bushby writes exciting children's novels, this one is just a bit shorter. It's short chapters make it ideal for reading at bedtime too.
Loved it.
TA, ESCP. Eve7 3

Cute fun witchy read
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