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Description: ISBN 0141322640 / Author: Roald Dahl / Genre: Junior Books / This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. So begins one of Roald ... more
The Witches - Roald Dahl ... Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's parents who are devoured by an escaped rhinoceros in James and the Giant Peach), he is taken in by his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who has learned a storyteller's respect for witches and is wise to their ways. The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale--a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie.

Newest Review: ... like and how painful and uncomfortable it is for them. Always wears long gloves. Wears a wig so she has an itchy scalp. ... more

 ... Larger than normal nostrils. Pupils which change colour. Blue spit and sore feet because they have no toes! So just be careful who you leave your children with in the future! When the Grandmother gets ill one day she is advised by her doctor to take a holiday, so packing up their belongings they head off to the Hotel Magnificent in Bournemouth. It is here when the real adventure begins. Playing with his pet mice he loses control of one and finds himself inside a big meeting room trying to find him. Thinking ...more

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The Witches - Roald Dahl: The report on Witches. (457 words)
by ANIKET MEHTA - written on 30/03/08
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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

barbie84
Premium Review are you a witch? (365 words)
by - written on 16/02/08 (Very useful, 405 readings)
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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

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Crowned Review The Witches - Roald Dahl: Little Children Smell of Poo and Should be Viped Out (1208 words)
by - written on 21/01/05 (Very useful, 6282 readings)
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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

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Premium Review Never Trust a Woman (891 words)
by - written on 20/04/04 (Very useful, 929 readings)
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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

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Premium Review The Witches - Roald Dahl: The Witches (98 words)
by - written on 17/07/00 (Very useful, 499 readings)
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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

 

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