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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Out of all the popular children?s authors I read, or was told to read at school, only Roald Dahl seemed to earn his popularity. His stories were imaginative, engaging, strange and often a little scary. Not being his best known work, although a 1990 film ensured it gained more recognition, ?The Witches? is often regarded as his most sinister tale. Naturally it was also my favourite. INTRODUCTION The book opens with a section entitled ?A Note About Witches.? An introduction rather than an opening chapter, this is an objective viewpoint ...  Read the complete review

I am very much in awe of Roald Dahl's understanding of just what entertains children. Being a child of the eighties I grew up on a diet of his books and The Witches was certainly one of my favourites. As a child I found The Witches deliciously frightening and yet funny at the same time. Roald Dahl manages to convey a 'stranger danger' message while entertaining children in a totally unique manner. As The Witches is of a frightening content I would certainly not recommend it as suitable for the under eights. ...  Read the complete review