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Katie’s Halloween Aunt
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Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or if they do, that they think she’s a rocket.”
Chloe was writing twirly patterns of stars in the sky, and Katie was sure that lots of people must have noticed. She heard “oohs” and “ahs” from the next door garden – then she ran through the house and out the front and found that a small crowd of people were standing in the street gazing up at the magical display.
“That’s some firework,” said a bald man.
“Impressive”, said a woman. “Did it come from a back garden?”
But a little boy said something that Katie didn’t want to here “That’s not a firework. Fireworks don’t go on for a long time like that. Look it’s a witch!”
His mother ticked him off: “Don’t be silly, witches only exist in books,” but his sister shouted: “Yippee I’ve seen a real life witch!”
“Oh Yikes!” thought Katie. “I’ll never live this down.”
The bald man started taking pictures with his mobile phone: “I’ll put these on Facebook,” he said, “No better, I’ll take a movie and send it to the TV Station. ‘Witch Flies on Halloween !’ They’ll pay good money for pictures like these.”
But then the broom stick started to swoop back down from the moonlit sky – it was coming down really fast, and very steeply – and Katie wondered how her Great Aunt managed to hang on, especially at her age. But then, she wasn’t hanging on any more – she slid off the stick and was dangling by one arm:
Katie put her hands to her face: “I can’t bear to look anymore” she said. But through a chink in her fingers she saw her Great Aunt come tumbling off her stick and fall down somewhere into the park.
Kate screamed “AAAHH THAT’S MY Aunt!” and people stared at her. She was too alarmed to care. She was running down the road to the entrance to the park. The gate was locked, but she managed to vault over it with a quick little weight-defying spell that made her bound like she was on the moon.
She wasn’t quite sure where her Aunt had landed, but she thought that she must have broken every bone in her body. Then, as she got near the lake, she had another fright:
A weird creature was wading through the water. Katie froze. “Could it be,” she thought, “some kind of ghoul that wakes up on Halloween?” – but of course it wasn’t a ghoul – it was her Aunt who had landed in the pond.
“YEE-HA!” she called. “Did you see me fly Katie ? Just like the old days. Only I seem to have broken my broom. Pity. I’ve had that one since way back when. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
The next day, Isis sent Katie a link to a video on YouTube. It showed a Halloween Witch flying over the rooftops amid the fireworks and crashing. Only most of the comments were agreed on one thing: “NICE FAKE !”
Which was one of the good things about magic. If people don’t believe in it, they will think it’s just trickery when they see it.
When Katie got to school on Monday, nobody was teasing her. Emma even said: “I wish I had a Great Aunt like yours. She was really cool in her costume. All my relatives are so boring they are just embarrassing. ”
At first Katie thought, “If only my relatives were boring, I’d be so glad, ” And then she realised: “Yes, people are often a bit embarrassed about their family – but usually there is no need, because other people see them quite differently.”
But all the same, she was glad that Halloween was over, and that her Great Aunt Chloe had flown home safely on a new broom stick that couldn’t go nearly as fast as the old one.
And that was the story of Katie’s Halloween Aunt.
Before I go, I’d like to let you know that Storynory is now putting some books on Kindle, to see if people would like to read our stories that way. Check out the Kindle store on Amazon for our story Katie and the Witch’s Swap, as well as some others we’ve put up there. And just in case you don’t know – you can download the Kindle app for computers and mobile phones, as well as the Kindle device.
And Storynory has a new Katie song out. It’s all about Katie and it’s called, “Don’t be Scared of Halloween.” It’s sung by our very own Gabriella, so do got to Storynory.com where you can download the mp3 for free !
For now, from me, Natasha Bye Bye !
I love aunt chloe!
She rocks!
Hi Natasha,
best story ever !
love it love it !
YOUR THE BEST NATASHA!
I love you natasha!
love from caitlin xxx
p.s.you are the best person or
story teller in the hole etire world
/unevers!
I just love love love love the katie storis! there one of my favrete storis! ps…………………I was even katie the wich for halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just love love love the katie storis! ps……… I was katie the wich for halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi I am part vampire and Part human don’t think that I’m half if each but what is thE next story after the remote of life
I like the Katie stories the best
Man my little sissy’s birthday is in 15 days and I have no presents for her
There is a little problem in the story.it’s just before the time katie shouts that is my aunt. it says kate not katie. t’s the first word of the paragraph.
TELL ANTHONY TO STOP BEING MEAN.THAT RUDE
I DONT LIKE THIS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
so coolllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllloooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111135845
I love this story because it has big words and lovely pictures.It is charming.
I LOVE This Book because it is chariming. It is funny and has GOOD music.It has big words. It has lovely pictures.
it was great but i never read it
love it just like MINECRAFTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anthony hated it because he said it was dunb
and babyish
i loved it
I love this story so much i can read it all day because it is just so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8.09.2012
Ilove your storys Story Nory!
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I love you Story Nory!!!!!
Thank you,
Ginger.xxxx
I love kaite and the witch because my name is Kaity.Can you let me know what is your address from Kaite.If you do I will read as many books as I want means 1000000000000000000000000000000000000
I love kaite and the witch because my name is Kaity.Can you let me know what is your address from Kaity.
Dear natasha
It is very cold were im at:’( hope u are not cold
Thank you Sarah and Lisa
I agree with sarah
I loved your story iman you should write more
I love Isis and Katie :D
Thanks Bertie! I will write more when I’m inspired
Hi Iman that is a fun story
Please read my story
Flying Bike
One beautiful morning a girl jumped out of bed because she was going to ride her bike with her friend but she jumped so high he hit her ceiling and she fainted at first then had a snooze. But then she woke up and went to the cliff and her friend was waiting they rode on the cliff but at that moment a giant rock came rolling to the left side of the cliff and the left side of the cliff broke and fell down. Then the friends saw a old woman that lived nearby the cliff . The man said, put this magic potion on your bikes and your bikes will fly. B-b-b-ut thats red bull t-t-th energy drink said one if the riders . Hon don’t you watch the telly? Red bull makes. You fly. Said. The woman . Okay we will try said one of the riders. At that moment the women poured red bull on the riders. But acully the girl( the one that hit her head on the cieling) was dreaming all this and the red bull part acully was her big brother pouring water on the girl. Bertie please write a review on my story. Till next time bye! Iman
these books are so long.
Dear Hunger games, I look for inspiration in my own life, and then turn it into fantasy.
Kwl storie bertie where do u get your insparation from becoz i wud like to be an author thanks
Hello
Thank you, Katie and Isis share a great Pumpkin Dance together where they fly and swoosh in the air
just like Katie’s great Aunt Chloe
I hope you find more stories you like on Storynory.com
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N*
I liked this story
that story rocked
i liked the pumkin dance
I loved this story
It rocked
I liked the pumkin dance that they made so funny
if i were there i would of gave them lots and lots of sweets
:)
I love story’s like these.this was a super duper story.luv u natasha
I LIKE THAT STORY
Hello
Katie’s Halloween Aunt is a fun Katie Story and little Katie learns a lot from her aunt Chloe who flies on a magic broomstick through the air. I hope you enjoy this and more Katie stories on Storynory.com
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N*
It is so great!
coolllllllllll
Grtt
Thanx all about this amazing story ….. i am from Egypt and i love storynory so much , and love natasha voice more :))
I love it. it is great.
Hello
This is one of the best Katie stories on Storynory.com Katie learns a few tricks on how to fly a broomstick from her Aunt Chloe and also makes up a dance with her best friend Isis.
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N
i think this story is the beast
HI. IT WAS WAY TO LONG!!! I LIKED IT A LITTLE BUT THERE ARE SO MANY BETTER STORIES OUT IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY! Thanks for Reading!Ok instead it was alright but too long
That story was an awesome story who writes them pls respond than you for the story
good story but add more detalis plase
it was verygood can you make one more about the aunt
I love this story. When are you going to write another one?
I really really really liked this. I listened to it at least thirty times. Make more Katie the ordinary witch stories. Thanks for reading this story to me. I listen to it almost every night. Why? I never have enough time. I am a bit afraid of the ghoul part. But now that I know it better, I’m not that scared anymore. I think it is the best story I heard on storynory!
Bye Bye P.S:thanks a lot!
Love,
Eudora
So cool
Thank you all for all the love and support i get from you,my fans.
i love your story
I love Katie and all the stories what is the newest story?
why doesn’t Katie like Halloween?
N* I think you should write a book with you in it write to me soon!!!
I think Aunt chloe is cool loved it and i think she should throw candy!
this is the most BORING book ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello
That is super, the latest Katie story about the Beast of Bodmin is a rather scary story in the Katie series and you may find more that you enjoy on Storynory.com
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N*
I absolutely love all of the katie stoyrys!
Every time I listen to Katie stories I feel like I am in the story with them.
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I DID NOT LIKE THIS BOOK AT ALL BUT YOU MIGHT
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Whoo hoo! Go Aunt Chloe! She rocks! Just needs to put the brakes on the broomstick, though.
My FAVOURITE CHARACTER WAS HER AUNT. iT IS WONDERFUL!
this is ausome to but not as good as don’t be skared of halloween i love the start of the story when you have a piano sound in the backround good start just try and get music for the hole story like don’t be skared of halloween i like music in the backround so try and get music in all of your story’s
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hi bertie,wow this was my favirote story i listen to it so many times can please make more please please. thank you for the katie stories.thank you
that is super!!!!
Hi Nina, I’m glad you enjoy our Katie stories. We have another one coming in about a week’s time.
Every time I listen to Katie stories I feel like I am in the story with them.
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PLEASE WRIGHT ANOTHER KATIE STORY VERY VERY SOON love your story
Aiden! It’s fiction!
My great aunt Chloe wishes you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or if they do, that they think she’s a rocket.”
Chloe was writing twirly patterns of stars in the sky, and Katie was sure that lots of people must have noticed. She heard “oohs” and “ahs” from the next door garden – then she ran through the house and out the front and found that a small crowd of people were standing in the street gazing up at the magical display.
“That’s some firework,” said a bald man.
“Impressive”, said a woman. “Did it come from a back garden?”
But a little boy said something that Katie didn’t want to here “That’s not a firework. Fireworks don’t go on for a long time like that. Look it’s a witch!”
His mother ticked him off: “Don’t be silly, witches only exist in books,” but his sister shouted: “Yippee I’ve seen a real life witch!”
“Oh Yikes!” thought Katie. “I’ll never live this down.”
The bald man started taking pictures with his mobile phone: “I’ll put these on Facebook,” he said, “No better, I’ll take a movie and send it to the TV Station. ‘Witch Flies on Halloween !’ They’ll pay good money for pictures like these.”
But then the broom stick started to swoop back down from the moonlit sky – it was coming down really fast, and very steeply – and Katie wondered how her Great Aunt managed to hang on, especially at her age. But then, she wasn’t hanging on any more – she slid off the stick and was dangling by one arm:
Katie put her hands to her face: “I can’t bear to look anymore” she said. But through a chink in her fingers she saw her Great Aunt come tumbling off her stick and fall down somewhere into the park.
Kate screamed “AAAHH THAT’S MY Aunt!” and people stared at her. She was too alarmed to care. She was running down the road to the entrance to the park. The gate was locked, but she managed to vault over it with a quick little weight-defying spell that made her bound like she was on the moon.
She wasn’t quite sure where her Aunt had landed, but she thought that she must have broken every bone in her body. Then, as she got near the lake, she had another fright:
A weird creature was wading through the water. Katie froze. “Could it be,” she thought, “some kind of ghoul that wakes up on Halloween?” – but of course it wasn’t a ghoul – it was her Aunt who had landed in the pond.
“YEE-HA!” she called. “Did you see me fly Katie ? Just like the old days. Only I seem to have broken my broom. Pity. I’ve had that one since way back when. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
The next day, Isis sent Katie a link to a video on YouTube. It showed a Halloween Witch flying over the rooftops amid the fireworks and crashing. Only most of the comments were agreed on one thing: “NICE FAKE !”
Which was one of the good things about magic. If people don’t believe in it, they will think it’s just trickery when they see it.
When Katie got to school on Monday, nobody was teasing her. Emma even said: “I wish I had a Great Aunt like yours. She was really cool in her costume. All my relatives are so boring they are just embarrassing. ”
At first Katie thought, “If only my relatives were boring, I’d be so glad, ” And then she realised: “Yes, people are often a bit embarrassed about their family – but usually there is no need, because other people see them quite differently.”
But all the same, she was glad that Halloween was over, and that her Great Aunt Chloe had flown home safely on a new broom stick that couldn’t go nearly as fast as the old one.
And that was the story of Katie’s Halloween Aunt.
Before I go, I’d like to let you know that Storynory is now putting some books on Kindle, to see if people would like to read our stories that way. Check out the Kindle store on Amazon for our story Katie and the Witch’s Swap, as well as some others we’ve put up there. And just in case you don’t know – you can download the Kindle app for computers and mobile phones, as well as the Kindle device.
And Storynory has a new Katie song out. It’s all about Katie and it’s called, “Don’t be Scared of Halloween.” It’s sung by our very own Gabriella, so do got to Storynory.com where you can download the mp3 for free !
For now, from me, Natasha Bye Bye !Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or if they do, that they think she’s a rocket.”
Chloe was writing twirly patterns of stars in the sky, and Katie was sure that lots of people must have noticed. She heard “oohs” and “ahs” from the next door garden – then she ran through the house and out the front and found that a small crowd of people were standing in the street gazing up at the magical display.
“That’s some firework,” said a bald man.
“Impressive”, said a woman. “Did it come from a back garden?”
But a little boy said something that Katie didn’t want to here “That’s not a firework. Fireworks don’t go on for a long time like that. Look it’s a witch!”
His mother ticked him off: “Don’t be silly, witches only exist in books,” but his sister shouted: “Yippee I’ve seen a real life witch!”
“Oh Yikes!” thought Katie. “I’ll never live this down.”
The bald man started taking pictures with his mobile phone: “I’ll put these on Facebook,” he said, “No better, I’ll take a movie and send it to the TV Station. ‘Witch Flies on Halloween !’ They’ll pay good money for pictures like these.”
But then the broom stick started to swoop back down from the moonlit sky – it was coming down really fast, and very steeply – and Katie wondered how her Great Aunt managed to hang on, especially at her age. But then, she wasn’t hanging on any more – she slid off the stick and was dangling by one arm:
Katie put her hands to her face: “I can’t bear to look anymore” she said. But through a chink in her fingers she saw her Great Aunt come tumbling off her stick and fall down somewhere into the park.
Kate screamed “AAAHH THAT’S MY Aunt!” and people stared at her. She was too alarmed to care. She was running down the road to the entrance to the park. The gate was locked, but she managed to vault over it with a quick little weight-defying spell that made her bound like she was on the moon.
She wasn’t quite sure where her Aunt had landed, but she thought that she must have broken every bone in her body. Then, as she got near the lake, she had another fright:
A weird creature was wading through the water. Katie froze. “Could it be,” she thought, “some kind of ghoul that wakes up on Halloween?” – but of course it wasn’t a ghoul – it was her Aunt who had landed in the pond.
“YEE-HA!” she called. “Did you see me fly Katie ? Just like the old days. Only I seem to have broken my broom. Pity. I’ve had that one since way back when. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
The next day, Isis sent Katie a link to a video on YouTube. It showed a Halloween Witch flying over the rooftops amid the fireworks and crashing. Only most of the comments were agreed on one thing: “NICE FAKE !”
Which was one of the good things about magic. If people don’t believe in it, they will think it’s just trickery when they see it.
When Katie got to school on Monday, nobody was teasing her. Emma even said: “I wish I had a Great Aunt like yours. She was really cool in her costume. All my relatives are so boring they are just embarrassing. ”
At first Katie thought, “If only my relatives were boring, I’d be so glad, ” And then she realised: “Yes, people are often a bit embarrassed about their family – but usually there is no need, because other people see them quite differently.”
But all the same, she was glad that Halloween was over, and that her Great Aunt Chloe had flown home safely on a new broom stick that couldn’t go nearly as fast as the old one.
And that was the story of Katie’s Halloween Aunt.
Before I go, I’d like to let you know that Storynory is now putting some books on Kindle, to see if people would like to read our stories that way. Check out the Kindle store on Amazon for our story Katie and the Witch’s Swap, as well as some others we’ve put up there. And just in case you don’t know – you can download the Kindle app for computers and mobile phones, as well as the Kindle device.
And Storynory has a new Katie song out. It’s all about Katie and it’s called, “Don’t be Scared of Halloween.” It’s sung by our very own Gabriella, so do got to Storynory.com where you can download the mp3 for free !
For now, from me, Natasha Bye Bye !Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or if they do, that they think she’s a rocket.”
Chloe was writing twirly patterns of stars in the sky, and Katie was sure that lots of people must have noticed. She heard “oohs” and “ahs” from the next door garden – then she ran through the house and out the front and found that a small crowd of people were standing in the street gazing up at the magical display.
“That’s some firework,” said a bald man.
“Impressive”, said a woman. “Did it come from a back garden?”
But a little boy said something that Katie didn’t want to here “That’s not a firework. Fireworks don’t go on for a long time like that. Look it’s a witch!”
His mother ticked him off: “Don’t be silly, witches only exist in books,” but his sister shouted: “Yippee I’ve seen a real life witch!”
“Oh Yikes!” thought Katie. “I’ll never live this down.”
The bald man started taking pictures with his mobile phone: “I’ll put these on Facebook,” he said, “No better, I’ll take a movie and send it to the TV Station. ‘Witch Flies on Halloween !’ They’ll pay good money for pictures like these.”
But then the broom stick started to swoop back down from the moonlit sky – it was coming down really fast, and very steeply – and Katie wondered how her Great Aunt managed to hang on, especially at her age. But then, she wasn’t hanging on any more – she slid off the stick and was dangling by one arm:
Katie put her hands to her face: “I can’t bear to look anymore” she said. But through a chink in her fingers she saw her Great Aunt come tumbling off her stick and fall down somewhere into the park.
Kate screamed “AAAHH THAT’S MY Aunt!” and people stared at her. She was too alarmed to care. She was running down the road to the entrance to the park. The gate was locked, but she managed to vault over it with a quick little weight-defying spell that made her bound like she was on the moon.
She wasn’t quite sure where her Aunt had landed, but she thought that she must have broken every bone in her body. Then, as she got near the lake, she had another fright:
A weird creature was wading through the water. Katie froze. “Could it be,” she thought, “some kind of ghoul that wakes up on Halloween?” – but of course it wasn’t a ghoul – it was her Aunt who had landed in the pond.
“YEE-HA!” she called. “Did you see me fly Katie ? Just like the old days. Only I seem to have broken my broom. Pity. I’ve had that one since way back when. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
The next day, Isis sent Katie a link to a video on YouTube. It showed a Halloween Witch flying over the rooftops amid the fireworks and crashing. Only most of the comments were agreed on one thing: “NICE FAKE !”
Which was one of the good things about magic. If people don’t believe in it, they will think it’s just trickery when they see it.
When Katie got to school on Monday, nobody was teasing her. Emma even said: “I wish I had a Great Aunt like yours. She was really cool in her costume. All my relatives are so boring they are just embarrassing. ”
At first Katie thought, “If only my relatives were boring, I’d be so glad, ” And then she realised: “Yes, people are often a bit embarrassed about their family – but usually there is no need, because other people see them quite differently.”
But all the same, she was glad that Halloween was over, and that her Great Aunt Chloe had flown home safely on a new broom stick that couldn’t go nearly as fast as the old one.
And that was the story of Katie’s Halloween Aunt.
Before I go, I’d like to let you know that Storynory is now putting some books on Kindle, to see if people would like to read our stories that way. Check out the Kindle store on Amazon for our story Katie and the Witch’s Swap, as well as some others we’ve put up there. And just in case you don’t know – you can download the Kindle app for computers and mobile phones, as well as the Kindle device.
And Storynory has a new Katie song out. It’s all about Katie and it’s called, “Don’t be Scared of Halloween.” It’s sung by our very own Gabriella, so do got to Storynory.com where you can download the mp3 for free !
For now, from me, Natasha Bye Bye !
Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or if they do, that they think she’s a rocket.”
Chloe was writing twirly patterns of stars in the sky, and Katie was sure that lots of people must have noticed. She heard “oohs” and “ahs” from the next door garden – then she ran through the house and out the front and found that a small crowd of people were standing in the street gazing up at the magical display.
“That’s some firework,” said a bald man.
“Impressive”, said a woman. “Did it come from a back garden?”
But a little boy said something that Katie didn’t want to here “That’s not a firework. Fireworks don’t go on for a long time like that. Look it’s a witch!”
His mother ticked him off: “Don’t be silly, witches only exist in books,” but his sister shouted: “Yippee I’ve seen a real life witch!”
“Oh Yikes!” thought Katie. “I’ll never live this down.”
The bald man started taking pictures with his mobile phone: “I’ll put these on Facebook,” he said, “No better, I’ll take a movie and send it to the TV Station. ‘Witch Flies on Halloween !’ They’ll pay good money for pictures like these.”
But then the broom stick started to swoop back down from the moonlit sky – it was coming down really fast, and very steeply – and Katie wondered how her Great Aunt managed to hang on, especially at her age. But then, she wasn’t hanging on any more – she slid off the stick and was dangling by one arm:
Katie put her hands to her face: “I can’t bear to look anymore” she said. But through a chink in her fingers she saw her Great Aunt come tumbling off her stick and fall down somewhere into the park.
Kate screamed “AAAHH THAT’S MY Aunt!” and people stared at her. She was too alarmed to care. She was running down the road to the entrance to the park. The gate was locked, but she managed to vault over it with a quick little weight-defying spell that made her bound like she was on the moon.
She wasn’t quite sure where her Aunt had landed, but she thought that she must have broken every bone in her body. Then, as she got near the lake, she had another fright:
A weird creature was wading through the water. Katie froze. “Could it be,” she thought, “some kind of ghoul that wakes up on Halloween?” – but of course it wasn’t a ghoul – it was her Aunt who had landed in the pond.
“YEE-HA!” she called. “Did you see me fly Katie ? Just like the old days. Only I seem to have broken my broom. Pity. I’ve had that one since way back when. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
The next day, Isis sent Katie a link to a video on YouTube. It showed a Halloween Witch flying over the rooftops amid the fireworks and crashing. Only most of the comments were agreed on one thing: “NICE FAKE !”
Which was one of the good things about magic. If people don’t believe in it, they will think it’s just trickery when they see it.
When Katie got to school on Monday, nobody was teasing her. Emma even said: “I wish I had a Great Aunt like yours. She was really cool in her costume. All my relatives are so boring they are just embarrassing. ”
At first Katie thought, “If only my relatives were boring, I’d be so glad, ” And then she realised: “Yes, people are often a bit embarrassed about their family – but usually there is no need, because other people see them quite differently.”
But all the same, she was glad that Halloween was over, and that her Great Aunt Chloe had flown home safely on a new broom stick that couldn’t go nearly as fast as the old one.
And that was the story of Katie’s Halloween Aunt.
Before I go, I’d like to let you know that Storynory is now putting some books on Kindle, to see if people would like to read our stories that way. Check out the Kindle store on Amazon for our story Katie and the Witch’s Swap, as well as some others we’ve put up there. And just in case you don’t know – you can download the Kindle app for computers and mobile phones, as well as the Kindle device.
And Storynory has a new Katie song out. It’s all about Katie and it’s called, “Don’t be Scared of Halloween.” It’s sung by our very own Gabriella, so do got to Storynory.com where you can download the mp3 for free !
For now, from me, Natasha Bye Bye !
Katie is helping her mother get her Magic Shop ready for Halloween – which as every kid knows is is on October 31 !!! (sorry we got that wrong in our song, ‘Don’t Be Scared of Halloween’) .
Katie’s Great Aunt Chloe is coming to stay for Halloween. Unfortunately her Great Aunt always makes Katie embarrassed by being just too “witchy”. She can’t resist flying on her broomstick and doing other tricks that draw attention to the fact that the family are witches.
This story features incidental music by Gabriella and Jay. And Natasha has made a Spooky Halloween Dance to go with the music and song (There are instructions in the story and you can read them in more detail on the song’s page).
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 20 minutes.
Katie’s Halloween Aunt
Hello, This is Natasha, and I’m dropping by with Halloween Story about our own Katie the Witch. I was just wondering, do you have any relatives that make you feel, well, just a bit embarrassed? You know, perhaps they dress in bad taste, or dance terribly at parties, or make awful jokes. Katie had a relative a bit like that. Her name was Great Aunt Chloe, and you can meet her in this story.
The trees were turning golden brown, the squirrels were busy burying conkers in the park, and the witches were getting ready for Halloween.
For Katie’s mum, this was the busiest time of the year in her shop called the Magic Lantern. If you
wanted to be a classy witch or a snazzy goblin, The Magic Lantern was the place to come and browse for a costume. Katie helped her mum cut out pumpkins, and at night, when the shop was closed, the door was guarded by ghoulish glowing faces. In the day, it was packed with mums and kids stocking up for Halloween. Many of them were from Katie’s School, which was holding a Halloween Ball.
Jennie’s mum came into the shop to buy some Halloween Lights, and as she was paying she said to Katie’s mum: “Of course your daughter doesn’t have to dress up for the Halloween Ball. She can just go as herself.”
And Katie’s mum fumed because she didn’t think that remark was meant as a compliment.
In fact, Halloween was far from Katie’s favourite time of year. It was the time when nobody would let her forget that she was a witch. Even her best friend Isis asked her:
“Katie, what do witches actually do for Halloween? I mean, they don’t really fly around on broomsticks, right?”
And Katie replied: “Don’t be silly. Of course they don’t.”
But actually, that wasn’t strictly true. Katie knew at least one witch who liked to take her broomstick for a spin on Halloween. And unfortunately, that person was her Great Aunt Chloe.
Great Aunt Chloe was the sister of Katie’s Grandma. But she was a very different sort of person. Grandma was extremely polite and proper. Aunt Chloe, as everyone in the family knew, had been a bit of a wild witch in her youth. She had been the first person to fly around the world on a broomstick. And she had been a member of The Red Sticks – a team of witches that did formation broom flying and death defying stunts, like loop the loop and vertical take-off.
And although these days she did not do so much flying, she still liked to keep up the tradition on Halloween.
People said that she had been extremely beautiful back in the old days, and she still was, in a witchy sort of way. And although it was good that she was proud of her magical heritage, it could also be a bit embarrassing for Katie and her mum who preferred to keep that sort of thing a bit hush hush.
Aunt Chloe had invited herself to come and stay. And the time she had picked for her visit was the Halloween weekend. Katie lay awake at night hoping that her Great Aunt would not do anything too embarrassing. But she knew that she probably would.
The school’s Halloween Ball went off just fine for Katie. One or two people – like Jennie and Jake – were nagging her to pull off a magic stunt or two, but most people just said how pretty she looked in her costume. She was wearing a blue and yellow caftan with lots of magical signs embroidered on the collar and cuffs. There was nothing too witchy about it all. And everyone loved the pumpkin dance that she performed with Isis.
This is how Katie and Isis did the pumpkin dance, to the song, Don’t Be Scared of Halloween. Firstly, they held their hands out to the side, holding pumpkins in their palms like weighing scales, and they swayed at the waist. They did a tap step from left to right, then they moved their shoulders up and down, they did a full turn and swivelled their pumpkin hands. For the verse beginning Witch’s Love to Fly on Sticks, they imagined they were flying on broom sticks, flinging sweets with flicking gestures of their hands.
Later on, when it was dark, the streets were full of excited kids going Trick or Treating. The little ones were all sugared up on sweets and shrieking like demons. The older ones tried to help their parents keep the smaller ones in check.
On the doorsteps of people’s houses, the kids screamed “Trick or Treat”, and if the people were nice, they gave them sweets.
But Katie and Isis collected the best haul of sweets because they charmed everyone with their pumpkin dance.
Great Aunt Chloe came along with Katie and her mum. She was wearing a black cloak and a pointed hat with red magical writing on it. Her eyes were covered with a mask, and she carried her broom stick in her hand. And although she blended into the general melee of weirdly dressed people, Katie could not help feeling anxious that she might do something just a bit embarrassing.
Two small kids ran past chanting : “Katie is a witch ! Katie is a witch ! ” and Aunt Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s very nice.”
“Oh I take no notice of little brats like them, ” said Katie. “They’re only small, and besides, they’ve scoffed too many sweets.”
Aunt Chloe dismissed them with a shrug.
But then one of the kids turned around and threw something at Katie. Isis shrieked. And Katie said, “Er what’s that.”
It was a Goo Bomb – a new kind of nasty toy that exploded with gooy green slime. Poor Katie was covered in it, and her hair was all sticky.
“HA HA ! Look at the ugly Slimy Witch ! ” shouted the kids.
But they weren’t so amused when Aunt Chloe raised her arm and pointed a lengthy index finger at them:
“No don’t, Aunt Chloe, Please !” pleaded Katie. But her Great Aunt was not listening. A green beam shot out of her finger and zapped first one and then the other kid. They both staggered backwards and sat down on a door step. When they tried to stand up, they couldn’t. They were stuck there.
“That will teach you to mess with a witch. You can stay on the Naughty Step until I release you …. which might be sometime next week if I am in a good mood. But on the other hand, I might just fly home and forget all about you.”
Both the children started to cry and their mothers rushed over and tried to help them to stand. But try as they might, they couldn’t. People were staring at Aunt Chloe, and Katie, and her mum, and accusations were starting to fly around.
“What have you done to our children?” demanded one of the mums.
And Aunt Chloe said, “I haven’t done anything. They are just naughty children. They threw goo all over my niece.”
Katie was so embarrassed, she wished that the road would open up and swallow her. Then she remembered that she shouldn’t wish too hard for anything like that because, after all, she was a witch, and it could actually happen
Katie’s mum pulled Chloe away from the crowd. “Please Aunt Chloe. Release them at once. ”
“In my day, children knew how to behave,” retorted Chloe.
“But if you don’t let them go them now, there will be a terrible scene and people will boycott my shop and bully Katie at school.”
“Oh all right then,” sighed Chloe. And she muttered the spell to unglue the two terrors from the step. The naughty kids were able to stand. There parents were hugging them. Nobody was quite sure what had happened. But a few people suspected.
Katie was fuming with her Aunt as they walked home with a bucket full of sweets. “It’s just awful,” she thought, “Now all the teasing and taunting about my family of witches is going to start all over again.”
She was glum when they got home, and went straight upstairs to sulk on on her bed. Her cat Solomon wasn’t there.
“I wish he hadn’t gone out tonight,” thought Katie, “There will be fireworks and they might scare the life out of him.”
Soon she heard some cracks and bangs in the sky.”Oh dear, poor Solomon,” she thought.
And then she heard a loud screech like a rocket going off – only it wasn’t quite like a rocket – it was more like a cat – “Oh NO !” exclaimed Katie, and she ran out into the garden.
The sound was coming from somewhere up on the roof. She looked up and saw not Solomon, but Great Aunt Chloe standing astride her broomstick on the tiles. A stream of red stars was pouring out of the back of her stick and she was waving her hat and screeching for all she was worth. Then she and her broomstick shot up into the sky, not quite vertically, but almost.
‘FZZZZZZZSHOOOOWOW ! ” went the broom stick, still pouring out stars like a firework. And she looped the loop, just like back in the old days.
“Wow, that’s cool flying,” thought Katie, “But I really really hope the neighbours don’t see, or
That was the coolest story I ever herd.
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That’s super, you can find lots of Katie stories to listen too. I expect Katie helps her mum a lot in her Magic Shop over Christmas as its their busiest time of year.
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i loved that story it was brilliant!!it ended really good i wish i could hear it again!!!!
THANKS!!
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Thank you for your comment, in this Katie learns a lot from her Halloween Aunt. When she goes to school she has to learn to remain ordinary in order to fit in with the other children in her class. Through out the series we hope that she grows up to learn how to be use her special powers for good.
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Thank you very much for sharing all those fabulous stories. My 2nd grader especially likes Katie. She listens to her stories over and over again. You guys rock!
What happened to my precious cat,Soloman?
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NASTASHA YOU MAKE THWE BEST STORYS EVERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE MORE KATIE ONES PLEASE PLEASE PKLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!! THANKX
When would you make the next one?
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you are a good reader natasha
katie aunt is soooo ugly she’s the uglys witch I saw she looks like the grinch stole chrismas she is funny and funny like all wiches she’s green and katie is also a witch
Yes I do because I like katie aunt.She is very very fun and funny.Who dont like her,I know my freinds do but some of them dont.Im in Mrs.Divine class. My name is Antonio martin and i am 11 years old.I am finish listening to it now.
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I love that story soooo much! And Katie’s aunt is um….ugly which all withches are.
Bertie and Natasha i havent been on here for over 3 months and this story was fantastic
i ? it and when is the next 1 coming out
nathsa why do you narorate every katie story????????!!!!!!!!!
hi hi hi hi it was ok katie’s better than aunt cloe
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I really liked this story. and i really think you should make a seprate series jut for Katie’s aunt
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Thank you for your comment
Katies Halloween Aunt is a great story.
Katie makes up a special Pumpkin Dance That you can find on the site
Let’s see what’s in store for Katie this Christmas when she helps her mum in the magic shop
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This is quite a story. The theme of this story is a good one too. It can be true with everybody. The kids, who threw goo at Kati,e were not nice though.
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I like the story because I like the name Katie and I like Halloween.
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Katie’s Halloween Aunt is a nice story in the series. Katie meets her Halloween Aunt who helps her understand about the family history of magic Witch’s. Aunt Chloe was part of the Red Sticks, a flying clang of Witch’s who met to practice tricks on their witch broomsticks. Aunt Chloe is like a role model for Katie.
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Good question!
When reading the stories I imagined Isis and Katie to
be at Secondary school and to have just started. In English schools Year 7 is
the first year of high school so this would make the girls about 11 years old.
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Isis and Katie have just started
HI Lily, Thanks for your question, and attention to detail. You don’t need a YouTube account to watch a video or to send a link to somebody…. we kind of keep the age of the characters vague, but 10 or 11 is probably about right. I think most children of that age have seen YouTube…. as you will see – we always say that only Adults of Children over 13 should join our Facebook group…
Isis has a YouTube account?? How old is she? 10?? 11??
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Hello thank you for your comment
Katie’s Halloween Aunt is special chapter in which Katie learns a lot about broomstick flying from her great Aunt Chloe who comes to stay
Katie has a lot to learn about being a witch as she grows up. She has a lot of talents including dancing with her best friend Isis.Making up witch spells makes her quite cool but she must remain a little bit ordinary to remain at school.
Thanks for listening to the Katie series on Storynory.com
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i like the book cause they have witches in it
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Great story
hurry up with the stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good story right and i listen during free time
I like when the kids got stuck on the steps!!!
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yes b/c it tells you how fun katie aunt is and how she is a fun exicting. it will teach you how to bring your which on and happy hallween and b/day.
Yes b/c it talks about Halloween and I like Halloween.When HALLOWEEN COME YOU CAN SCARE YOUR LITTLE SISTER IF YOU HAVE ONE.I ALSO LIKE THIS STORY B/C IT TALKS ABOUT HOW FUN IS KATIE ANUT IS.HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND I KNOW IT ALREADY PASS
love it but it needs more pictures if it’s going to be a childrens book.
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Katie’s Halloween Aunt is a great Story for Halloween
and there are lost more Katie stories and activities to come
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Nice story!!!!!!!!
r u going to make another series
Why are there no more stories? Is something wrong?
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Thank you for your comment. Katie learns a lot from her Aunt Chloe when she comes to stay on Halloween.
and watches her flying broomstick skills up in the air as she ducks and dives and flies in formation.
it is an important step for Katie as she grows up to be an ordinary witch at school.
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I loved it. It was AWSOME!
supreme story!!!
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Thank you for your comment, all the Katie and The Witch stories are good way to follow the young character of Katie as she grows up and has to learn to be an ordinary witch at school
and only use her powers for good
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Sometimes long stories can be good as long as we want to read or listen them
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Thank you for your comment, Katie is not afraid of Halloween in the slightest because she is used to preparing for it every year
but she has a real surprise when he Halloween Aunt comes to stay and shows Katie a few tricks or two on her magic broomstick.
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i not sure what to say but y cnt it be a song like dnt be scared of halloween
I know some of my relatives are a bit embarrassing too sometimes.It would be so freaky if there were actually real ghouls
yes very long thog
WOW! I love this story! I love all the Katie the Ordinary Witch stories!
Awesome story!
Thanks to all the people who made this story possible!
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DONT’T READ THIS? CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS.? YOU WILL GET KISSED? ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY? THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMMOROW WILL BE TH? EBEST DAY OF? YOUR LIFE? HOWEVER IF YOU DON’T POST THIS COMMENT TO THREE VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN TWO DAYS. NO, YOU’VE ALREADY? STARTED READING SO DON’T STOP.? THIS? IS SCARY. PUT THIS? ON? FIVE VIDEOS? IN THE NEXT 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOUR DONE? PRESS F6 AND YOUR LOVERS NAME? WILL APPEAR? ON THE SCREEN? IN BIG LETTERS.? ACTUALLY? WORKS
Nice but it’s too long. is there any shorter story that I can give it to my students?
I like this story because when she takes her broom for a spin.;) and its a good story for halloween.
Beautiful story and very beautiful reading voice!! Thanks Natasha!
its good but its long
i love this story and i love her aunt 2 i wish i have a aunt like that i dont even have an aunt its embarrasing
gr8 story n i rlly lkd it ;) when will u put up a new katie story i <3 dem so much n its prfect for halloween :P
pluu… BORING pluu…
When is the next story coming????? And why aren’t there any more bertie stories anymore?
COOL, really cool story,thanks for the story
your stories were cool
it is cool
I like the story and the songs.
IT WAS AWSOME thank you for the story.
miriam I like the story and the characters
Jimena this story is amaz
This is a good story . but it is long and cool
I like the story it is cool.
JESSICA I liked the story
ANDREA i like the characters
THIS is a cool story,It is a fresh story
I liked when the aut got the children stuck
the charecters were katie,ant chloe,Isis,katies mom, the school children solomon, and the neibers 2 the setting was in the neiberhood 2. it was cool very very cool
I liked Great Aunt Chloe. She was an interesting character!
1. who were the characters,Katie,Aunt Chloe,Isis.
boring
tis the latest Katie story for upcoming Halloween .
Pretty cool.
Dear people i say hi ROSY
for who wrote somthing i say happy hallween and plus HI
u know my baby daughter is 8 months and she loved this story thanks for who read this story by there voice
ok i am reading
its cool story I like it ,thanks
I like the part when the song was introduced in the story because i like songs! My favorite song is lil wayne put me in on fourth and inches…BYE thanks!!!!!!!
I thought this was an alright story, to be honest. Well it is a good story, but not so interesting to me. But good Job writer!!!! :D =) ngmjvjhvhjvjkgiugjkgiuguil
the story was good but it was shiking when kates great anut fell off her broom
It was awnsome
this story is great,wish i could read more of your books,thanks!!!!!!
I liked this story but I liked Katie and the Magic Shop better. I like story nory and i went on a road trip to washington d c in october.
My aunts are really really boring, well I think.
She gets mad when I just watch TV when I’m washing my teeth!
Weird!!
Dear Matrix, the first story doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of the series in a few ways…..
good story but plz no more music because i usually listen to it in bed plz and thanks, rachel
where is mr.bones from the first story?
I love the katey stories
i love the story I WANT TO READ MORE………
i love the story iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwq dekjqwfbqWJKFBKFWJBFEWJKBFEWKJ
I LIKE KATIE BECAUSE SHE IS A WITCH.
This story is amazing I want more Natasha all the katie stories are great tell bertie is helping you right the stories
YOU ROCK NATASHA & BERTIE (I LOVE U )
I love it but it was to long.
this is realy awsome!!!!!!!!
I like this story very much!
I am Japanese
I love katy storys
is a very interesant the historyt the katie halloween aunt
i like the story
I LOVE THIS STORY ….I WANT TO HEAR MORE …
dear Nahomi, Keep Writing ! The last Katie story – the Magic Shop – was quite a long one.
so awesome thanks natasha
can the next one be really long oh and thanks story nory for making me have more hope in being a writer
wow, i really love this story it’s amazing one, i wish i have proomstick to go around everywhere,
thanks Natasha, i wish you best luck. bye bye
awsome im already a fan of katie
Encore ,encore and encore again! Please write more stories about Katie . I’m a bookworm and this has been one of the best stories I’ve read in years!
Exellent! Bravo!! I love the “Katie Stories.” Please write more about her!!
wooooooooooow…..
COOL, really cool story
wow i love it and i like how its got the song dont be scared of halloween in it to it must be very hard for katie to try to be normal.her great aunt was luky that she landed in the pond.thanks for the story!!!!
It’s very good story ,thanks!