["The Little Witch" is a] real spine-tingler, filled with realistic spells and enchantments and wicked witches…. A surprise ending will delight children who like stories about witches, but this is stronger meat than most books of this type. Well written, lively, suspenseful.

Marian Herr, "Junior Books Appraised: 'The Little Witch'," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the November, 1961 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1961), Vol. 8, No. 3, November, 1961, p. 54.

Hotzenplotz's theft of a musical coffee mill [in The Robber Hotzenplotz] set Kasperl and his straight man friend Seppel in pursuit of the notorious bandit. Their elaborate tracking simply snares them in the robber's den, and their involved escape includes outwitting a magician. The team of Kasperl and Seppel is sort of a lumbering counterpart of Laurel and Hardy. When described in full, their outlandish actions...