The Witches
Author(s): Roald Dahl
You could be sitting next to a witch and never know it. They look just like ordinary women but they're extremely dangerous to children! Luckily for the boy in this story, his grandmother knows what signs to look for but, even so, things don't go quite as planned.
Product Information
Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year Award Children's Book Category 1983.
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began writing after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin Books
- : 31 March 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : b&w illustrations
- : Classic fiction
- : 208
- : very good
- : 823.914
- : Quentin Blake
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Roald Dahl