The main protagonists are three unusual girls with unusual abilities. At the Newitchhousing estate they manage toturn this most common of daysintoanunusual pile of problems that neither parents, children, grandparents nor even the mayor know what to do about. And they are still able to pretend that they’ve done nothing, that they are merely cats sniffing through rubbish bins.The Witches of Newitchbecame “the most beautiful children’s book of winter 2005” in ia. The book is illustrated by children from the Sklenárova Elementary School in Bratislava under the pedagogical leadership of artist and musician, Zuzana Homolová.