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The Witches - Roald Dahl |
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30/03/08 (511 review reads) |
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Advantages: its everything you want in a childrens book
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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 importantly she is very wise, specialist subject- The Witches.
"In fairy- tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks....REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS". The Witches" is the story of a little boy and his grandmother from Norway. At the age of 7, the boy loses his parents in a tragic car accident and he comes to be cared for by his grandmother. His grandmother teaches him everything about witches. Later on in the story they are staying at the same hotel as the witches. He is caught in a terrifying situation, and it seems there is no escape .After the grandson becomes a mouse he reaches his grand mom safely. Together they make a plan to turn the witches' potion against them by adding it to a soup reserved for the witches themselves. They all turn into mice almost instantly, the hotel staff panic. As the Grand High Witch predicted, and kills England's witches in their form of mice. Boy and his grandmother then create a plan by which to use the potion recipe the witches created to attack the Grand High Witch's Norwegian headquarters. The idea is that they can turn all of the witches into beige mice, and then place a number of cats into the headquarters. After doing that, they use the counterfeiting machine to pay all the expenses to travel around the world getting rid of all the witches they can find in the Planet Earth.
Accompanied by Quentin Blake's incredible drawings, Roald Dahl's The Witches is a brilliant read for children (and adults) of all ages.The way in which Roald Dahl tells the story creates a scary atmosphere, always relating to the reader, making them feel that maybe what she is saying is true in real life. 'The witches' is a fantastically frightful book that cannot fail to capture the imagination of both children and adults alike.
Summary: FIGHT AGAINST WITCHES LOL
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