Ende, Michael, <br/><br/>
The night of wishes :  or, The satanarchaeolidealcohellish notion potion / 
 Satanarchaeolidealcohellish notion potion 
Michael Ende ; translated from the German by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian ; pictures by Regina Kehn. 
 - 218 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - New York Review Children's Collection .
<br/><br/> "It's 5pm on New Year's Eve in the Villa Nightmare, and as Shadow Sorcery Minister Beelzebub Preposteror's thumb-striking clock counts down each hour with an "Ouch!", Minister Preposteror draws closer to missing his midnight deadline forfulfilling his annual quota of evil deeds and being "foreclosed." Up against a tight deadline and threats from His Hellish Excellency, the Minister of Pitch Darkness himself, Preposteror has all but given up when the arrival of an unexpected visitor promises hope: his aunt, the witch Tyrannia Vampirella, who proposes that they work together to brew the Notion Potion, a powerful formula that will grant all their evil wishes. The Night of Wishes, from The Neverending Story author Michael Ende, anticipates the world of Harry Potter: a world in which magic is not only very real, and wielded by both forces good and evil, but also bureaucratized, with its practitioners fitting into a tightly regulated hierarchical system"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781681371887 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>P01672 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017013742 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic.<br/>JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Other, Non-Religious.<br/>Magic--Fiction.<br/>Wizards--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Occult fiction.<br/>Humorous stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT2665.N27  / S2613 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>833/.914