The witches /

By: Dahl, Roald [author.]Contributor(s): Blake, Quentin [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013Copyright date: ©1983Description: 206 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780142410110; 014241011X; 9780756982294; 0756982294; 9780141349947; 0141349948Subject(s): Witches -- Juvenile fiction | Witches -- Fiction | Witches -- Juvenile fiction | Movie novels | Witches -- Fiction | WitchesGenre/Form: Ghost stories. | Humorous fiction. | Children's stories. | Fiction. | Juvenile works.
Contents:
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.!
Awards: Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, 1983.Summary: 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.
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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.