Dahl, Roald,

The witches / Roald Dahl ; illustrations by Quentin Blake. - 206 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

A note about witches -- My grandmother -- How to recognize a witch -- The grand high witch -- Summer holidays -- The meeting -- Frizzled like a fritter -- Formula 86 delayed-action mouse-maker -- The recipe -- Bruno Jenkins disappears -- The ancient ones -- Metamorphosis -- Bruno -- Hello, grandmamma -- The mouse-burglar -- Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins meet Bruno -- The plan -- In the kitchen -- Mr. Jenkins and his son -- The triumph -- The heart of a mouse -- It's off to work we go.!

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, 1983.

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