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Summary: This book is great!I thought the witches would kill the boy!
Review: I loved the book it had action and suspense! I was hoping that the witches would kill the boy through the whole book! This is a great book for young kids
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Summary: I strongly recommend it!!! Truly my favorite book.
Review: I liked Witches because it told you how to distinguish a witch from a human. It was weird how they could change children into mice. It is very exciting and makes you want to keep reading and read it again
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Summary: Definitely worth reading! One of the best!
Review: This is an excellent book for children! The Witches is
"educational" in telling how to identify witches and it's a fun story! Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! -- Darcy Zacharias age
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Summary: Another Wonderful Book by Roald Dahl!
Review: They are completely bald and always wear wigs, constantly sneaking hands underneath to scratch their itchy scalps. They don't have any toes and have really broad feet, but they force their feet into narrow, fashionable shoes to blend in. They have really long, curved fingernails that they usually hide by wearing gloves. They are the witches. And the meanest, nastiest witches live in England, where a boy has just gone to live with his grandmother after his parent's tragic death.His grandmother always warned the boy about suspecting nice women who offer him candy - check for gloves, wigs and pinched feet. He is able to avoid the witches until his grandmother becomes ill and they go to a seaside resort where the English witches are having a convention just like normal people in the hotel. Stunned, the boy overhears the grand witch's plot to eliminate all of the children in England by feeding them candy that will turn them into mice! When he is discovered, the boy knows that the witches are going to kill him, but they test the potion on him instead. Now in mouse form, the boy and his grandmother must use all of their wits and cleverness to defeat the witches' evil scheme! The Witches is a highly entertaining book by the always inventive Roald Dahl. You would think that a book about witches would be scary, but Roald Dahl has just the right combination of humor and lightheartedness to balance out the scariness. I loved this book when I was growing up and have enjoyed sharing it with my younger siblings and nephews. It is true that it has a couple of slow parts as the author takes the time to set up the story, but the storyline is just so imaginative that you get caught up in the story and don't really notice until you have read it a couple of times. With all of the many details, Roald Dahl can easily convince you that witches are real and that there really are women out there like that! Humor aside, it does show that you should never take candy from strangers - no matter what they look like! Although this book is great for reading alone, it is best when real aloud and shared with children, who always know the right parts to gasp at!
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: Roald Dahl has got a lot of nerve to be going about dissing witches. Think about it - would YOU insult the witches of this world?
Revealing the secrets of these scabby, bald-headed, clawed, toeless child haters, Dahl risks his life to enlighten his young readers, and to prepare them for the inevitable onslaught of The Witches.
I actually know a very nice, real live witch, smart and pretty - but if she ever offers me a chocolate or other scrumptious treat, I'll have no choice but to pull off her wig, remove her shoes and gloves and send her picture to the National Enquirer.
As the story goes, an orphaned boy finds himself trapped behind a screen in a meeting room, and inadvertently eavesdrops on a secret meeting of the witches of England. Due to his poor hygiene, he is not discovered until the end of the meeting, as the dirt in his pores kept his natural small-boy scent at bay.
Fortunately he has two things going for him. His grandmother is an expert on witches and has prepared him for this eventuality, and second, he's as clever and quiet as a mouse.
Together they work together to foil the evil scheme of the head witch, and to make the world a witch-free zone.
Thoroughly entertaining and delightfully disgusting.
Amanda Richards, February 19, 2005
(Note: There ARE some witches in the world who don't do this sort of thing anymore, so be careful who you expose)
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Summary: The Witches
Review: One of the best books of one of the best authors in the world. What more can you ask for?
The Witches is a story about a young boy who lives with his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, and who comes into conflict with the witches of the world. As he soon learns, witches don't ride about on broomsticks or wear tall pointed hats. In fact, they takes great pains to blend in with the rest of society, and only a knowledgeable observer can detect them via a series of clues about their appearance. The boy gets a crash course in witchery when he and his grandmother check into a hotel which, coincidentally, is hosting an annual meeting of the society of witches.
This book has all of the Dahlisms that make this author so special. There are entertaining sub-stories that are fascinating in their own right, as when Grandmother relates her childhood experience with a witch. There are grand and daring plans that may or may not work out as the planner intends. Moreso than in other Dahl books, the villainesses are downright creepy, and a child who reads it may find him or herself surreptitiously checking out women for signs that they are witches.
The inventiveness, the humor, and the excitement of this book come through on every page, and no child will be bored during this story. There's a feeling that Dahl and his child readers are collaborating on something magical, bold, and a little naughty, and this sense of camraderie conveys itself to the childhood readers.
Of all the Dahl books, this has to be one of the three or four best, and the ending, which isn't remotely tidy or ideal, may be shocking. The movie was kind of okay, but doesn't hold a candle to this exciting book.
For entertainment purposes, I couldn't recommend it more.
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