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Summary: Real Witches Are Scary
Review: Forget everything you thought you know about witches. Roald Dahl's book, The Witches, is a fantastic tale of a young boy who comes to realize that the seemingly normal women of the R.S.P.C.C. (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) are in fact, plotting the destruction of every child in the world. The narrator discovers that hiding underneath their nice clothing and ordinary appearance is a bald head, blue teeth, a scary face and no toes. This is all too familiar for the narrator because his cigar smokinh grandmother has told him of these creepy characters before. As the seven year old narrator hides behind a shade, he hears the witches plot to turn every child into a mouse because witches hate children. To a witch a child smells like extremely foul. When his cover is blown, the witches turn him into a mouse. Dahl take you on his wild and dangerous hunt for an antidote to turn himself back into a little boy. Dahl's imagination and incredible ability to tell a story are what makes this book a fabulous tale. Dahl grabs you on the first page and doesn't let you go.
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Summary: The Witches
Review: The Witches
By: Roald Dahl
Reviewed by: M. Jen
Period: 5 The book is about a young boy (later on turned into a mouse) and his grandmother trying to get rid of The Grand High Witch and her fellow followers, also witches. The two of them and the group of witches happen to be at the same hotel, the boy and his grandmother for vacation, the witches are having a meeting to find ways to get rid of the children of England. The boy gets caught by the witches and he is transformed by the witches' magical powers into a little mouse. Together, the mouse and his grandmother hatch a plan to get rid of the witches and in the end, they succeed.
I really enjoyed this book because Roald Dahl used a lot of descriptive words and I could get an vivid image. The plot is really good and exciting. The story made me imagine what would happen next and it made me want to read more and I couldn't stop reading it. My favorite part is when the boy realizes he is in the room full of witches! it's really funny how everything fits together but he doesn't realize it until it's too late. (The following is from the book.) "She's wearing a wig! She was also wearing gloves! I glanced swiftly aound the rest of the now seated audience. "Every one of them was wearing gloves!" Then he goes on and says, "My blood turned to ice. I began to shake all over. I glanced frantically behind me for a back door to escape through. There wasn't one." That part made me really scared and I began to read like crazy.
The part I didn't like was when he was turned into a mouse and when the boy finds the three frogs. I felt very sorry for them becasue they were going to die. I also dont like Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins. They are very rude and mean. I didn't liek the part when they mouse gets his tail cut off. That part was very horrible in my opinion.
My favorite part was when the grandmother talks to the boy about how to tell the difference about witches and women and when she told the little boy stories about witches and what they did with children. I thought that part was very intersting. I also like the part when the boy and his grandmother defeat the witches by turning them into mice. That part was very funny and i thought it was very cool. This is truly one of my favorite books i have ever read.
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Summary: Cool Book
Review: I really enjoyed this book when one of my teachers read it to my class, when I was a kid. It is all about evil witches living among us in secret and trying to get rid of children. Along with the main plot, about an old woman and her grandson who are on to the witches, there are a lot of good side stories about witches and what they do to kids. A great book.
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Summary: Great for everyone who likes fantasy.
Review: I just read this book for my 5th grade class and I really enjoyed it. It is a very interesting and well written book that made me want to keep reading and not put the book down. The story centers around a young boy who's grandmother cares for him after he lost his own parents in a tragic accident. After the grandmother got sick they went to England and stayed in a hotel. While at the hotel the boy went into the ballroom to train his mice and some ladies came in. Luckily he was hidden behind some curtains and he overheard them talking about a new ingredient they made that was designed to kill every child in England. Even though he is eventually changed into a mouse, he somehow manages to outwit the witches (but you'll have to read the book to find out how)! I really recommend this book by Raold Dahl!
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Summary: A 10-year-old from Canada says:
Review: This is the third Roald Dahl book I have read. The first was called Matilda, and I think it is his most famous. I have also read George's Marvelous Medicine. The Witches is a funny book and has wonderful drawings. The witches in this book wore wigs and pointed shoes to hide their bald heads and square feet with no toes! The witches in this book had eyes that changed colours, and were mean and mischivious. The witches in this book where cruel to children and turned them into mice. They live in a castle in Norway. The other characters in this story are a grandmother, her 7-year-old grandson, and the grandson's friend, Bruno. The witches were having a meeting in the hotel where the others where staying. The witches turned the children into mice, but in the end the children get even. I really enjoyed this book. Roald Dahl is a wonderful children's writer. I would recommend all his books!
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Summary: A Scary Story for Kids, but didn't cause any nightmares
Review: The Witches is about a little orphaned boy who lives with his grandmother. Before bedtime each night his grandmother would tell him stories, and his favorite story was always about the Witches. His grandmother seemed to know everything about them and told him how to recognize and stay away from them. The boy never knew his grandmother to lie, so he listened and followed her advice on the subject. When the boy finds out that Witches really do exist, his grandmother's advice comes in handy to help the little boy escape them for a long period time, but they eventually catch up to him half way through the book and turn him into a mouse. You would think that this would be a very sad thing, but the boy loves being a mouse. Actually while reading this book to my five and seven year old daughters, the youngest one said that she thought being a mouse would be a very neat thing and asked if it was possible for me to turn her into one. I told her that even if I could I wouldn't since I would miss having my little girl too much. As a mouse the boy realizes he can do a lot of things he couldn't have done otherwise if he was still a little boy, so with the help of his grandmother they comes up with a plan to get rid of all the witches in England. It was a great story. Unlike Roald Dahl's other books which touch upon scary subject's but in a humorous way, this one without a doubt is trying to scare your kids. Rather then giving my girls nightmares however, it was more along the lines of them listening to a good ghost story around the fire while you are away at camp, and they just found it very entertaining. Quintin Blake once again drew some wonderful illustrations to capture the action which added to the story.
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Summary: The Witches
Review: A young boy's parents who dies in a car crash and he has to go and live with his grandma in Norway. There are alot of vocabulary in this book you should read! I learned that witches wear wigs so if you read this book, you will learn alot about witches.
I recommend this book review by Rould Dahl
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Summary: The Witches
Review: Did you read the book The witches? If you did not know. You should read this book because ,it is Exciting. It is about a boy that loses his mother and father in a car crash and now he has to stay with his grandmother.The boy and the grandmother are trying to kill the Witches. And if you read the book or watch the movie it is very inenjoyable.
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Summary: The Witches
Review: While on vacation visiting his grandmother in Norway.A boy finds out, that he is going to be living with his grandmother for good.His parents were killed in a car crash.When the boy was at his grandmother's house, his grandmother tells him all about witches.The boy is turned into a mouse. Grandmamma helps the boy turn all the witches into mice.The chracter in this book are.The Grand High Witch, the boy, his Grandmamma,and his new friend Bruno. This is a good book, but I didn't like the picture very much.
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Summary: What I think about witches by Antonio Fortes
Review: BOOM! Car crash- in a flash a young boy's life changes. An English boy goes to visit his grandmother in Norway. While there, his parents die in a horrible car crash. While in Norway,the grandmother tells him fascinating stories about witches. He soon finds out that his grandmother is a witchophile. A witchophile is a person who is an expert on witches. The boy is like all boys. He is caring and loving towards his grandmother. One day while on vacation at Hotel Magnificent in England, the boy gets turned into a mouse and has to come up with a plan to stop the witch from turning all the children of England into mice. The book is a little too long AND DRAGS but okay. You sould read the book. You will love it! byANTONIO FORTES
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