title: The Witcher: Volume 2 - Fox Children
author:  Paul Tobin 
description: Paul Tobin is a comic book writer whose best known works include: <i>The Age of the Sentry</i>, <i>Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four</i>, <i>Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes</i>, <i>Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man</i>, <i>The Whitcher</i>, and <i>Colder</i>. He lives in Portland, Oregon and is married to comics artist, Colleen Coover. The author lives in Portland, OR.
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  DIANA WYNNE JONES
  
  
  Earwig  
  and the  
  Witch
  
  
  ![logo](images/title.jpg)
  
  
  ILLUSTRATED BY  
  PAUL O. ZELINSKY
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [Cover](cover.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](title01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](ch01.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](ch02.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](ch03.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](ch04.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](ch05.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](ch06.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Author](ata01.html#ata01)
  
  
  [About the Illustrator](ati01.html#ati01)
  
  
  [Credits](credit01.html#credit01)
  
  
  [Copyright](copy01.html#copy01)
  
  
  [Back Ad](Backad.html)
  
  
  [About the Publisher](atp01.html#atp01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![logo](images/ch01.jpg)
  
  
  At St. Morwald’s Home for Children it was the day when people who wanted to be
  foster parents came to see which children they might want to take home with
  them.
  
  
  “How boring!” Earwig said to her friend Custard. The two of them were lined up
  in the dining room with the bigger children. Earwig thought this whole
  afternoon was an utter wast