I love Halloween, everyone knows this... but I also love witches, not just at Halloween but all year! My very favorite witch is The Wicked Witch of the West. I am betting that most of the kids (and some adults) have never read the book! Did you know that the witch in the book is not like the movie! This is what the witch looks like in the books. She has a patch over her eye (it's a telescope!), she wears her hair in pigtails and doesn't even have a broom. She carries an umbrella! And- Dorothy kills the witch with a bucket of water after she steals one of her shoes (silver shoes!) In the book, the Wicked Witch is only a minor character- in one chapter. I must say that I love the movie witch even more. I can do a pretty good "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" Stop by the library and I will show you! Also... see if you can find the wicked witch that I keep in my office! 
Dorothy, swept from Kansas by a cyclone, is deposited over the rainbow in the magical land of Oz where she runs afoul of an evil witch who tries to keep Dorothy from finding her way back home.
A witch goes around to her fiendish friends--from two cats to ten werewolves--to gather the ingredients to make gruesome stew for her party.
When Strega Nona (Grandmother witch) leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
This is a book that my daughter Leah knows by heart and can read it word for word (she "reads" it, she is only 2!) A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
With baking magic, Mrs. Biddlebox uses fog, dirt, sky, and other ingredients of a rotten day to transform it into a sweet cake. The book doesn't come right out and say Mrs. Biddlebix is a witch, but I do!
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. This was my favorite book in 6th grade! I haven't seen the movie...
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
Elizabeth is very lonely until she meets Jennifer, who is a witch and who teaches Elizabeth to become a witch herself. This was my favorite book in fifth grade! I wish I could get more kids to read it!
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.
A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well, until her neighbors decide the thing is wicked and dangerous.
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