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Katie the Witch first came out and about around Halloween, and was a big hit with lots of Storynory listeners. (Her first story is here). Now she returns in a new tale in which she gets into trouble, big trouble, at school.
Katie has twice as much school work to do as all the other kids. She has to learn loads and loads of magic spells, as well as her written spelling, arithmetic, geography, French and history. She finds that it’s ever so tempting just to use a little bit of magic in her ordinary school exams. And that’s when her trouble begins.
Read by Natasha. Duration 16.15. Written by Bertie.
It was summer. The school year had almost come to an end, and everyone was looking forward to the long holidays.
In fact, everyone would have been really, really happy, except for one thing.
Before the holidays, they had to do exams. And nobody likes to do exams, unless they are the swottiest of swots.
And Katie didn’t think that exams were at all nice.
No matter how good you are at magic, you still have to remember things for yourself. And Katie had twice as much to learn as all the other children.
She had to do the witch exams as well as the ordinary school exams.
She did the witch exams in the evenings – and her mum gave her four and half stars stars for her work. But then she had to get ready for the tests at her school.
“Mum, it’s not fair” she complained. “I have to learn so many magic spells. And I have to learn all the school lessons too.”
“Well just think yourself lucky,” said mum. “Other children have to tidy their rooms, but you can just say a magic spell and it’s done just like that!”
So Katie sat in her room and tried to read her school books. But to tell you the truth, she also looked out of the window and made up fairy tales about herself.
Only in the stories, she wasn’t a witch. She was a beautiful princess who could also do magic tricks.
When exam week came, the first test was spelling. If it had been magic spelling, Katie would have been alright. But in this test the teacher read out words like “accommodation” and “Mississippi” and other words that are tricky to spell.
Katie was really cross. She thought the teacher had chosen the most difficult words just to be mean.
That wasn’t fair.
So she tried a little magic. She couldn’t say a spell out loud, because everyone would hear.
So she just thought the words in her head really hard – and Wow ! It worked. Her pen wrote the correct spellings all by itself.
Next they had to do maths problems. Katie could do the first few – because they were easy-peasy – but then there was a mean question about a monkey and some bananas.
So she thought up another magic spell, and again her pen wrote down the right answer.
In history, she had to remember all the names of the gods of Ancient Egypt.
And in geography she had to remember the capital cities of Europe.
And in French she had to remember some really, really tricky words like “le sange est sur la branche “ which means “the monkey is on the branch”.
In fact, all the exams had mean questions in them. And in every case, a little magic spell came in handy.
In fact, the magic worked so well for Katie that she thought to herself: “Why should I bother learning all these stupid thing? I can just say a magic spell and my pen will write the answer.”
The week after that, the teacher, finished marking all the papers.
She told the class that they had all done very well, especially Katie who had scored top marks in every exam. She hadn’t got a single answer wrong.
“Wow Katie, “ said Julie. “You’re a genius.”
The teacher said, “Congratulations Katie. You certainly did very well. Maybe too well. I think that you and I should go and have a little talk with Mrs. Hepworth.”
And Katie felt just a bit worried.
Because Mrs. Hepworth is the head mistress. And when you go to have a little talk with Mrs. Hepworth, that usually means that you are in trouble.
Big Trouble.
At lunchtime, the teacher took Katie to see Mrs Hepworth. She explained that Katie had got top marks in all her exams and hadn’t got a single question wrong.
“You are a very naughty girl,” said Mrs. Hepworth.
And Katie started to cry.
And to cry.
And to cry.
And the teacher dried her tears with a handkerchief.
“There there,” she said.
Eventually Katie stopped crying.
“Do you know why you are a naughty girl?” asked Mrs. Hepworth.
Katie said: “You’re just cross with me because I’m a witch and I know how to do magic. That’s really mean of you because I can’t help being a witch. I was born that way.”
“Now you are talking nonsense.” said Mrs. Hepworth. There are no such things as witches or magic. You are in trouble because you cheated in the exams.”
“I did not not NOT !.” said Katie.
“Just tell us how you did it, and we will let you off – this time,” said the teacher.
Katie knew that she was in big trouble. She just wanted to run out of the study and all the way back home to her mum. But she couldn’t do that, so she thought she had better own up.
“Well I did do a few magic spells,” she said. “Just little ones”.
But they didn’t believe her.
“Oh dear. What are we going to do with this problem child?” said the teacher.
“Katie.” said Mrs. Hepworth. “You are in big, big trouble. You have till the end of term to tell us how you cheated in the exams. If you don’t tell the truth by then, you won’t be coming back to school next term. We don’t have girls who make up stories about witches and magic in this school. Goodness gracious! You’ll be frightening all the other children with these silly stories.”
And Katie was very very sad about that, because she was telling the truth about being a witch.
And it wasn’t fair.
It was the last week of term. And before the holidays, the school always had a special treat. This term, Katie’s class went on a trip to the safari park.
It was a big park full of wild animals from places like Africa. There were giraffes, and elephants, and long-legged deer called Gazelles.
Katie’s class were all safe inside the bus, and they looked out of the window at all the animals. It was ever so cool. Everyone was really excited and happy.
Except for Katie. She was sad because she was still in big, big trouble.
The best animals were the chimpanzees. They climbed all over the bus. The driver got really cross when they stole his windscreen wipers. Everyone else thought that was ever so funny.
And the lions were good too. Even if they were a bit scary .
They had lunch in a restaurant on top of a tall rock. The rock was on a big island surrounded by water. And in the water there were crocodiles.
And the crocodiles were really scary.
Even more scary than the lions.
There was boy in Katie’s class called Clive. Clive was always doing silly things. But the teachers didn’t seem to mind.
Clive never go into trouble, however silly he was.
But then, he didn’t know how to do magic. So that was probably why he always got away with things.
In the restaurant, Clive did something very silly indeed. He asked to go to the loo, and on the way back, he went through a door that said:
“Staff Only.”
And from there he went down a corridor and found a special room.
It was the room which they used to feed the crocodiles.
It had a window and the keepers threw meat out of it, down into the river. And somebody had left the window open.
Clive climbed up to look through the window. Then he saw that if you climbed out of the window, you could get onto the rocks. He thought it would be really cool to walk around the rocks, and look in at the other children eating their lunch. They would get a really big surprise to see him out there.
So that’s what he did.
Only he slipped on a banana skin left by a monkey. Then, he fell down the rocks and broke his ankle. Fortunately, one of the keepers saw him and sounded the alarm.
Everyone in the restaurant rushed to the window to look out, and they saw Clive lying on a rock near the river. A crocodile was waddling slowly towards him. Its face had a sort of smile on it, and its tale was swishing.
Everyone screamed.
Except for Katie and Wendy.
Wendy knew that Katie was a witch because once she had once turned her into a toad for a short time.
“Katie. Do something. You’re the only one who can save poor Clive. Just say a magic spell. Quick !!!!!”
Mrs. Hepworth heard this. But she was too frightened to tell off either Wendy or Katie. After all, poor Clive was looking into the jaws of a crocodile.
Katie thought really hard what would be the best magic spell do do. And then she decided: “I know. I will make Clive fly.”
Fortunately, she knew the spell to make somebody fly off by heart. She had learned it when she was getting ready for her witch exams. Now she shouted it out at the top of her voice.
I can’t tell you what she said, because it’s a secret. But it worked well, because everyone saw Clive rise up in the air, and gently fly back up to the restaurant.
Even the crocodile was impressed.
Then Katie said another spell to make everyone forget what they had just seen .
Except for the crocodile.
And Mrs. Hepworth.
After that, Katie wasn’t in trouble any more. Because Mrs. Hepworth now knew that she was telling the truth when she said she was a witch.
And Katie was glad that she had worked very hard that term – to learn all her magic spells. And when she got home and told her family what had happened, her mum gave her another half star for passing her witch exams.
So now Katie is a five star witch.
137 Comments
Nice story, Natasha! Thank you!
Excellent story
باسم الاب والابن والروح القدس
اشكر الله على تعب محبتكم فى تقديم هذه النخبه الجميله من القصص
عصام
Good story Natasha.
it was a cool book
its was ok
Hi Bertie…
I am Sheryl can you remember me??
Have you turned back into a Prince yet??
Or are you any closer to being changed back into a Prince….
I love this story very much…It is very funny as well…
i love it well i am a witch too. i am just study some spell i will give you one:
this is a white magic, and it is interesting. if you have two friends over, have one lay on the floor face up. you and the other friend put your hands under them and start chanting…….
“light as a father,stiff as a board”(repeat over and over) start loudly, then get softer until you are saying it in your mind. your friend will slowly start levitating…
THIS IS LEVITATION SPELL….
I HOPE YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR MORE INTERESTING SPELL AND CUTE SPELL BYE BYE
We LOVE Natasha’s stories. Mathew can’t wait each week for the new stories. We listen in the car on our way to EVERYWHERE. We especially loved the Snow Queen story and this new one about Katie was REALLY good. We can’t even imagine life before discovering StoryNory. Thank you so much.
Claire and Mathew
Thank you so much for the lovely comment.
And Diana,
be careful with that Levitation spell – remember what goes up must come down – but thanks for your comment !
Sheryl -(Saffronamber) –
Of course I remember you ! Glad you are still listening. I’m still a frog, I’m afraid. I’m having a hunt around for the text of the Sweetest Princess Competition.
Varun, Essam, Alma, and Face – Thanks So much ! It’s very kind of you to say nice things.
I got the gist of Essam’s comment from Google Translate: http://www.google.com/translate_t – And our very best wishes to you too.
Natasha says hi to you all and Bye bye for now.
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this was a ok and funny story
I did enjoy it and also it was very exciting. I liked it when Miss Hepwotrh realized that Katie really was a witch.
I am a witch too. This is a spell to make your friend ticklish.Tie her up and chant TICKLE BOOM BOOM and start tickling her and do not stop until she cant breathe.
i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT
IT WAS A VERY NICE STORY. I LIKED IT A LOT!
Thank you for the story, from DC (4 1/2) and DA (2 1/2), USA.
너무 좋아요!
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Great story!
bye bye natasha
Diana’s spell doesn’t even work i tried it with my sister and it didn’t work i was quite annoyed because i was really looking forward to it, anyway i enjoyed the story about Katy and her spells i wish i was a witch so i could cheat in exams.
It was a good story but I was dissapointed that Diana`s spell didn`t work
I liked the part when clive was almost eaten by a croc…. CRIKEY!!
It had a happy ending that`s all that matters
I did enjoy it and also it was very exciting
This story is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.I wish I can read it to my class.
It is a very nice story.
I like it.
Thanls alot
It was the best story i have heard yet!
i hope you make more
thanks for the story,
well it is rare when i come across beutiful sites like this. it is amazing to find somepeople doing this things for free.thanx lot.your stories are valuable i take them to present them to my students
Rebz , your spell doesn’t work because you don’t have any magic in you.
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我好呆比~~~
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Its so cool! heres a spell to make somebody and yourself fly.: Fly fly fly , (name) let’s fly!
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we listen to every story
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What a lovely story, and beautifully read!
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good but the crocidioll shud have eat en the boy
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Hi Bertie…
I am Sheryl can you remember me??
Have you turned back into a Prince yet??
Or are you any closer to being changed back into a Prince….
I love this story very much…It is very funny as well…
Hi Sheryl, Of course I remember you. Thanks for your comment. I’m still stuck as a frog, I’m afraid, but I’m quite used to it now. At least I have stories to cheer me up. Bye for now
It was an exicting story and I wish I could see a real witch if I could and I would be friends.. Thank you for reading the story to me. Good Bye~
that was kinda good
IDO LIKE THIS BOOK BUT I AM NOT GOING TO SAY THAT IT IS MY FAVORIT BOOK
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psget a life.
this isa bad book.
i liked that a tiny bit but u read bad
elora
hi natasha the story called the witch who got into troubel at school is exalent. you have the best website ever love by the way i am 6
this is such an interesting story!
Katie the witch, I love her~^^
Hi i am a girl and i know i have a boys name but oh well who cares i really enjoyed this story and hope to read your others bye bye for now!!
I want to be a kind witch because I always wanted to fly.
thank u for all the stories i enjoy reading them with all my family every day .LOVE U Natasha because u care .
cool story
i luv your atuobooks! i like how you act like the charaters.i’ll come here every day.
i like this story because you guy’s are bone head’s
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this brilliant site. My daughter loves listening to you before she goes to bed and I’ll hear her throughout the day saying “Hello, This is Natasha and…” it’s so cute. I tell her stories most of the time, but how nice to be able to let her listen to your clever and intelligent stories. Thanks again.
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i like the story about the witch who got in big troble she was funny can she fly
it’s so lovely, i love that
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PLEASE SEND ME STORIES
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I liked the part when the little witch got in trouble. I loved the story natasha told us.
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I liked this story because it was very funny!
The story is about the witch who got in trouble at school.The story was a little funny, but I liked the part when katie made the boy fly up in the air.
I enjoyed the story when i read it for the second time what i liked about the story was when monkeys stole the buses windscreen wipers
and it was not that boring byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
This is an excellent story. I like it because it was interesting. I like the part when Katie made Clive fly and when she got top marks in her test. It was funny when she had to do spelling… it was normal spelling not witches spelling. I think 3C should all read it.
i liked the story the witch who got in touble because it was funny when Katie made the bus go back to her stop .I also liked the part when Katie made Clive fly .This was quite an intresting story
Birtie, I thought I saw Princess Beatrice the other day. What does he look like?
sorry: reedo, what does she look like?
I thought that was a good story.
It was exciting.
I know over 10,000 spells.
Wanna hear some: Expelliarmus, Avada Kedrava,
protego, sectumsempra, petrificus totalus and much much more.
Did I ever tell you I invented a broomstick that flys to Jupiter?
Just Joking. Ha!
good story natasha it was exiting and very funny
ITs reall nice i am puttin it on my PSP i really love it and i download them and listen be4 asleep
and i know its weird i am 11 and i love imaginary stories and detectives
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Very good story,i have read this one so many times!
thank u
ive heard all the storys on storynory.com ( I MEAN ALL OF THEM!)
i want to join witch
me and ryley are so excited .
not good
It was super!I wish I was Jack! The first part was great! The second part was awsome! Third was scary but good. Forth one was cool. The last one I didn’t heard it because I need to do my maths homework from school
this episode is my favourite!!!
this story was stupid! there was no good part. a principal wouldnt believe that katie was a witch. it made no sense, it was long, and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
someone write to me its boring without anyone to write or talk to’
Dear Lauren, I’m story you didn’t like the witch story. Hopefully you can find another story more to your liking !
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i love your stories!!! my uncle had a few downloaded on his ipod cause he has to learn English and when i visited him i listened to them thats how i found out about storynory thanks!!!
I Liked it very much it was nice
beyyyyyyyyyyy.
it was a little boring story
i never saw like this kind of headmistress.
overall
THE STORY WAS COOL!!!
thankyou Natasha for this story
I know many children said it’s boring but you don’t have to listen to them Natasha it was awesome
this story is very good.bertie were you theone who made this website? can you send me your website
Hi Hafsa, yes, among the many things I do is make this website
what bis relly the story of bertie is he a prince or is he a frog plzz reply
Dear Anam, Bertie is both a prince and a frog
i am from Greece and your storys are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work.
Bertie what are you going to be for Halloween.
not . but a ???????????????????????
Dear Abigail On Halloween I shall be hiding from the wicked queen because she likes to do her most wicked spells that night.
I like it a lot.
i like when she got a haf star
I liked it is very good
I like the book it was so cool
I liked the part when natasha got in trouble.
I like this story very much IT IS THE BEST EVER. you people are great, I can listen to so many stories for free. As I am from India Pari in Hindi means fairy.
please reply
Dear Pari, So glad you like our stories. What a great name you have got ! Fantastic for stories.
Hey Bertie + Natasha,
I just want to say you guys have made me and my brother (Sam) totally in love with storynory.com we listen to a story off storynory every night when we go to bed and I think these Katie stories are some of the best ones on here! So thanks for being so creative with these stories. What’s Katie’s next adventure?
Hi Jane I”m really pleased that you and Sam love Storynory. Yes, I think the Katie stories are among the best on the site. We are planning a talking cat for her next adventure, but it’s not been written yet.
hi Bertie,
Really a talking cat? That sounds so cool!!!Me and Sam are really excited you responded to us thanks a lot !!!! I hope you write the next Katie story soon!!!!!
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Your stories are really interesting! Our classmates love to listen to your audio!