Winnie the Witch looked out of her window and shivered.
Her garden was covered in snow.
Her pond was covered in ice.
Icicles hung from roof tops.
"I'm tired of winter," said Winnie.
Wilbur came in through the cat flap.
His feet were wet, and his whiskers were frozen.
Wilbur was tired of winter, too.
Suddenly, Winnie has an idea.
She stopped what she was doing, took down her big book of spells, and read it carefully.
Then she put on her woolly coat, her fluffy hat, her snow boots, her gloves, and her scarf.
She picked up her wand and she went outside.
Wilbur already had a fur coat on, so he went outside too.
He thought something exciting might happen, and he wanted to watch.
Winnie shut her eys.
Then she stood on tiptoe, counted to ten, waed her wand five times, and shouted,
ABRACADABRA!
And something magical happened!
Above Winnie's house the sun shone brightly.
The sky was deep blue.
All the snow had disappeared.
It was no longer winter at Winnie's house.
It was sunny summer.
Winnie took off her woolly coat, her fluffy hat, her snow boots, her gloves, and her scarf.
She got her deckchair and went out in the garden to sit in the sun.
"This is lovely," said Winnie.
"Summer is much nicer."
Wilbur lay down in the sun and purred.
This is lovely, he thought.
Summer is much nicer than winter.
All over the garden, little animals ere waking up.
They had been having their winter sleep, and they were very cross.
They came out into the garden, yawning sleepily.
"It's too early for summer," they grumbled.
"We want to go back to sleep."
The flowers had been asleep under the snow.
They woke up and began to grow.
Up came the leaves, and then the flowers.
But the sun was too hot for them.
Their heads began to droop.
All the lovely flowers were dying.
Winnie was worried.
The animals and the flowers didn't like her lovely summer.
Then she heard a very strange noise...
Winnie turned around, and there behind her was a great crowd of people.
They were running along the road towards her house.
They crowded into her garden.
They took off their coats, their hats, their boots, their gloves, and their scarves.
They sat in the sunshine.
They walked on Winnies's floweres.
They put orange peel on Winnie's grass.
They paddled in Winnie's pond.
