Simon and the Witch is a children's book by Margaret Stuart Barry, published by Collins, illustrated by Linda Birch.

She sees the trolleys patients are moved round on, and organises races on them, and everyone has so much fun they all feel better and go home again.

Fortunately, one hundred of her relatives turn up, with their black cats, and they crash the party, demonstrating their magic many times over.

In 1987, the books were made into a television series for Children's BBC, consisting of twenty five fifteen minute episodes, starring Elizabeth Spriggs as the Witch, and Hugh Pollard as Simon.

[1] Guest stars included Joan Sims, Nicola Stapleton, and Naomie Harris.