TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ende,Michael
AU  - Kehn,Regina
AU  - Schwarzbauer,Heike
AU  - Takvorian,Rick
TI  - The night of wishes: or, The satanarchaeolidealcohellish notion potion 
T2  - New York Review Children's Collection
SN  - 9781681371887
AV  - PT2665.N27 S2613 2017
U1  - 833/.914 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review of Books
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Other, Non-Religious
KW  - Magic
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Wizards
KW  - Occult fiction
KW  - Humorous stories
N2  - "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"--
ER  -