The Witches

Author(s): Roald Dahl

Primary

THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl is the story of a detestable breed of Witches.
BEWARE.
Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children.
The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear.
Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what . . . ?


 


Product Information

One child a week is fifty-two a year.

Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.

Sitting in a hut at the bottom of his garden, surrounded by odd bits and pieces such as a suitcase (used as a footrest), his own hipbone (which he'd had replaced) and a heavy ball of metal foil (made from years' worth of chocolate wrappers), Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's best-loved stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and lots more.


Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.

General Fields

  • : 9780141365473
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.172
  • : March 2020
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roald Dahl
  • : Black and white line throughout
  • : YFB
  • : 368
  • : Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
  • : [Fic]
  • : English
  • : Quentin Blake
  • : 01
  • : Paperback