The Witches - Roald Dahl

Topic: Name: Aniket Mehta (aniketmehta2003@hotmail.com) Book: The Witches Author: Roald Dahl Pages: 202 "A real witch is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on earth." But, if real witches disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies rather than flying around on broomsticks in pointy hats, how can you tell when you're face to face with one? This book will first give you a note about witches. This book is one of my favorite Roald Dahl books because of its use of every small child's nightmare, The Witches! The character grandma really is the most wonderful grandmother a child could ever wish for and more ...

The story ========= The witches goal is to get rid of all the children in england, the head witch comes up with a plan, the witches are going to buy all the sweet shops then put a magic potion into the chocolate which at 9 am the next day will turn all the children into mice, hopeing that the teachers at school will panic at the sight of mice and kill them. Unfortunatley for them an old norwegian witch expert and her grandson only ever refered to as boy are staying at the same hotel as the witches. Wholst training his pet mice boy sees the witches reveal there true identity so he stays hidden, them he sees them test there potion on ...

If there’s one thing I loved doing as a child it was reading. If there’s one author whose books I loved to read it was Roald Dahl. Born in 1916 to Norwegian parents, Dahl was to become one of the most iconic writers of children’s stories of our time. Dahl died in 1990 after a long list of literary achievements. Famed for “James and the Giant Peach”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” to name but a few of his books, “The Witches” won the Whitbread Award in 1983. On one rather dull evening in Oxford, I sat down to read it… “In fairy- tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on ...