The Witches

Author: Roald Dahl

Interest age: from c 7 years

Published on 21 July 2022 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 352 pages, Black and white line throughout
128 x 197 x 26 | 282g

'One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.'This is a story about REAL WITCHES.

Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.

But they are far from ORDINARY . . .

The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.

That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .

The text in this edition of The Witches was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.