Heidi Heckelbeck And The Cookie Contest

Includes an excerpt from Heidi Heckelbeck in disguise.

Eight-year-old witch Heidi Heckelbeck goes to a regular school for the first time where she makes friends with Lucy Lancaster, begins a rivalry with mean Melanie Maplethorpe, and tries to control her magic powers.

Heidi wants to win the Brewster Elementary cookie contest, but does not think through all the consequences of adding magic to her recipe. Illustrations.

Get the first whimsically witchy books in the Heidi Heckelbeck series, plus a link to download the fourth as a free ebook! Heidi Heckelbeck is the most charming witch around—and not just because she knows how to cast a spell. Join this sweet magic-maker as she starts a new school, makes a new friend, and uses her special talents! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers—and they make a great gift! This three-pack includes Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret, Heidi Heckelbeck Casts a Spell, and Heidi Heckelbeck and the Cookie Contest, plus a link to download a free ebook edition of Heidi Heckelbeck in Disguise.

Second-grade witch Heidi Heckelbeck wants revenge against Melanie, the meanest girl in school, so she decides to cast a forgetting spell on her right before the start of the school play. Illustrations.

Heidi’s magical secret may be out of the bag in this thirty-sixth Heidi Heckelbeck adventure! Is the town of Brewster ready to learn the truth about Heidi Heckelbeck? Or would Heidi be better off if her magic disappeared forever? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers, their first opportunity to engage with a work of literature on their own, to feel a sense of mastery over a text, and to experience pleasure from the act of reading independently. Using interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon and synthesize research being done in education, child psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and children’s literature, the volume visits Early Readers from a variety of angles: as teaching tools; as cultural artifacts that shape cultural and individual subjectivity; as mass produced products sold to a niche market of parents, educators, and young children; and as aesthetic objects, works of literature and art with specific conventions. Examining the reasons such books are so popular with young readers, as well as the reasons that some adults challenge and censor them, the volume considers the ways Early Readers contribute to the construction of younger children as readers, thinkers, consumers, and as gendered, raced, classed subjects. It also addresses children’s texts that have been translated and sold around the globe, examining them as part of an increasingly transnational children’s media culture that may add to or supplant regional, ethnic, and national children’s literatures and cultures. While this collection focuses mostly on books written in English and often aimed at children living in the US, it is important to acknowledge that these Early Readers are a major US cultural export, influencing the reading habits and development of children across the globe.

Witch Heidi is angry when mean Melanie Maplethorpe dresses as a witch for Halloween, but when she decides to retaliate, she almost loses all her friends. Illustrations.