This was my very favorite book at age 9 and I still love it! My son just read it and is doing his book report (3rd grade). I believe it was my first encounter with a "good vs. evil" theme, and luckily, good won out!!! Melinda enraptured me with her blonde hair that blew and the way she could make doors open just by touching them. My favorite part was when a tree sprouted up out of the kitchen table and when the leaves opened, they revealed little cakes with Timothy and Ellen's names on them. The black witch, with her bony arms and wrinkled face, scared me silly! I kept my copy, which is tattered from reading, and has a 75 cent price tag! I hope you all can find one.....and I wish Margaret Storey had written more books!

This was apparently the first book I ever read entirely by myself, at four. The images from the book still haunt me: a kitchen with a tree growing through the floor and up into the ceiling, a magical book with pictures that move, and a garden that leads into... somewhere else. Unlike the other reviewer, I'm still trying to track down a copy!

I read this book once, at a friend's house, as a young child. The story stayed somewhere in the back of my mind for years, or rather the mood, the world, that this haunting story created. I couldn't remember the title for so long, until finally one day it came back to me and I was finally able to find it at a library and read it again. It was just as good as I remembered. Look for it!

Margaret Storey's series of books about Timothy and Ellen, the powerful white witch Melinda, and a host of other amusing and wonderful characters have entertained me and my friends for several decades before Harry Potter. "The Double Wizard" is one of her best stories, and she is truly in her element here. The verbal swordplay between the characters are classic and very witty, and she doesn't pander to her readers, leaving just enough mystery for her audience, children though they may be, to try to figure out some fringe details on their own. A timeless tale which is definitely not for children only. If you like Harry Potter, then "The Double Wizard," as well as Margaret Storey's other books, are definitely for you.