Dorrie and the Witch Doctor by Patricia Coombs

Dorrie's Play, 1965 – Shooed away by the Big Witch and Cook, Dorrie decides to put on a play with Gink.Dorrie scours Cook's magic cabinet, uses its contents to capture the Blue Witch and receives a gold cauldron for her efforts. Instead of Cook, she finds the bad Blue Witch. Expecting Cook to arrive any minute, Dorrie opens the door. Dorrie and the Blue Witch, 1964 – When Dorrie is left home alone by the Big Witch, she decides to have a tea party with Gink.However, the reprints provided by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform are readily available at such online bookstores as. All of the 20 Dorrie books except Dorrie and the Haunted Schoolhouse, and the 2009-2010 print-on-demand (POD) reprints, are currently out of print. She lives with her mother, the Big Witch, and their house-hand, Cook. Bibliography Dorrie the Little Witch Series ĭorrie is a little witch whose “hat is always on crooked and her stockings never match.” She has a black cat named Gink who follows her wherever she goes. She first started writing and illustrating stories for her two daughters, the youngest of which, together with a Siamese cat named Dingbat, became the inspiration for Dorrie and her cat Gink.

(1950) in English literature from the University of Washington. The smells of mice and lilacs to this day evoke certain stories.’” She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and received her B.A. As a result I ended up reading in odd places where I wouldn’t be noticed-behind my brother’s mice cages, under lilac bushes. “Of her childhood, she says, ‘I was forever being told to get my nose out of a book and go outside. Patricia Coombs (born in Los Angeles, California, July 23, 1926) is the author and illustrator of many children's picture books, including the popular Dorrie the Little Witch series.

Dorrie and the Witch Doctor by Patricia Coombs