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Summary: The Witches
Review: Raed this book and find out what happens to a boy who lives in England whose parents die in a car crash! He had to tell lots of stories about witches. They have to move to England because that was where the little boy's parents want him to be raised. The grandma does not want to move to England. The boy faces many encounters with witches in this story. It is funny and scary.I am sure if you read this you will love it. It is good for kids to read.
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Summary: Adults ought to read it, too
Review: There is no better novel for describing the cognitive dissonance a normal person will feel around a certain type of civic booster than "The Witches." More than a wonderful child's fantasy novel, Dahl tells you what, as an adult, you will encounter with superficially sweet people who have their own agenda. His details of the witches - from their perfectly coiffed hair (wigs) to their meaty non-smile ricti (rictuses?) - are exactly what you encounter in the real world. And if that sounds depressing and bitter, let me tell you, it helps to be able to laugh about it through Dahl's novel. This is a terrific kids' book - that's when I got exposed to it - but remembering how all the Royal Society for the Protection of Children were plastic evil people helps me put into perspective all the insane backstabbers I've had to deal with. Forget self-help, get Roald.
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Summary: Quarter 3 book project
Review: The Witches
By:Roald Dahl,
Reviewed by:K.L
period 3 This book is about witches terrorizing children. When the main character's parents died, in a car accident, he had to live with his grandma in Norway. The book doesn't tell you the main character's name, because he's telling the story. When he was living with his grandma, his grandma told him scary stories about witches. The boy never believed it at first, until he saw it himself. Later on the boy finds out where the all the witches met. And he over hears what their secret plan, about how they were going to get rid of annoying children. The boy sucessfully ruined their plans, but because of that he was turned into a mouse.
I liked the book because, it was an adventurous and exciting tale. I'm a fan of scary stories, so the tales about witches interested me. I liked the author's creative imagination. He made up how witches looked like, and how to avoid them."A witch has a bald head, not even a single strand of hair can grow on it." "If you pay attention to the hands you can see that they always wear gloves."
I don't like the book because it had a poorly drawn illustration. It looks like a child drew it. Another reason was because the story wasn't very interesting until the climax. Not even the rising action appealed to me.
My favorite part was when the main character was trying to prevent the witches' plans from suceeding. There was so much action and tension, i couldn't stop reading...
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Summary: Justin from Richview middle school
Review: I thought The Witches was a really great book. I really liked it when the grandmother made the yarn thingy and threw it out the window. The characters are The Grand High Witch, the boy, the grandmother, and a bunch of witches. It was fun reading this book. Its about a boy and his grandmother that are trying to kill the Grand High Witch but the Witches turn the boy into a mouse.
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Summary: Mouse maker
Review: The Witches
By: Roald Dahl
Reviewed by: P. Tadiparthy
Period: 5 In the beginning of this book there is a little boy who loses his parents in a car accident when he is about 7 years old. Then he gets sent to his Grandma to live with her. After a couple of days his grandma receives a letter that is actually the little boy's dad's will paper. When she says that they have to move back to his old house he gets mad. He knows his grandma doesn't like to leave her house, but he still goes because he has no other choice. When they get to their new house the grandma tells the little boy all about witches. She tells him how to recognize them and what they are like. Then the little boy goes wandering in their hotel and he finds a room where a meeting is going on. When he looks in the room their are a whole bunch of women standing there. He seems interested so he crawls in and hides behind a wall. When the women come and lock the door the boy gets a little scared. He is afraid that they will find him. The ladies take of all of their things and to the little boy's surprise, all the women are witches. They are having their yearly meeting about how to get rid of nasty little children. Witches think kids smell like dog droppings and their main mission in life is to kill all kids. This year the grand kid made a potion to change all the kids into mice. The little boy gets found and the witches change him into a mouse. When he finally escapes, as a mouse, he goes to his grandma and tells her all about it. He can still talk because his body was only changed. His grandma gets all scared, but he calms her down. Then the little boy comes up with a plan to turn all the witches into mice. He goes in the witches room and gets a bottle of the potion. Then, he and his grandma go to the dining area. He scurries into the kitchen where the witches food is being made. He dumps all the potion in each and everyone's bowl. He gets caught, but luckily, he escapes to his grandma. They then watch as the witches eat their food and turn into mice. His grandma and him move back to their old house and decide to spend the rest of their lives looking for and killing witches with the potion. I liked this book because it was very funny. One part that I found amusing was when the boy said, "Grandma, I want to be a mouse." I found this funny because they also mentioned that he wants to be a mouse so that he doesn't have to go to school and take tests. He just has to stay home. He also wants to be a mouse so that he can go anywhere and do anything whenever he wants. Another part that I found funny was when all the witches turned into mice. They said, "What's happening to me? AH!!!!!" This part was funny to me because all of the 89 witches turned into witches at the same time. When the witches turned into mice everyone started screaming in high pitch voices. They also ran around in circles like they were maniacs. My favorite part of the book was when the mouse went in the witches room looking for the potion. I liked because it was very interesting. It told the reader that witches are smart. They don't hide something like that anywhere. Actually, she hid it under the mattress. She made a small hole and put them there. The mouse found it because his grandma told him everything about witches.
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Summary: A book you have to read
Review: The Witches
By Roald Dahl The Witches is an exciting wonderful book. It is about a boy and his grandmother going on a wonderful adventure with the Grand High Witch. In this book you will learn how to spot a witch and go an amazing adventure. I recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: The Witches a review by Ashley
Review: " A real witch is certain to wear gloves on her hands, she does not have human fingernails, she just has curvy cat claws. A real witch is always bald and wears a wig to cover her shiny bald head. A real witch has slightly larger nose holes and can smell a stinky child from miles away. If you are cleaner the better she can smell you. If you are dirty the dirt covers your childlike stench, she could not smell you as far away. A witch is always a girl; so if a man has all these features he is just different, don't stare. A real witch has extraordinary eyes; her pupils seem to keep changing from color to color. A real witch has no toes, but hides that feature by wearing pointy shoes. A real witch has blue spit, but unfortunately that will not help you spot a witch unless she spits, which she is forbidden to do," explained Grandmamma trying to tell her grandson how to spot a witch so he will never run into one."
" I have only met a few witches in my life time," explained the protagonist of the novel The Witches by Roald Dahl. This book is about a little boy whose parents were killed when they got into a car accident. When they died he came to live with his grandmother in Norway.
A witch came along, walking with her nose plugged because she smelled the scent of dog droppings or kid, fresh kid. She spotted him and tried to persuade him to come out of the tree and suddenly, poof, a snake had appeared in her gloved hands. The little boy did not like snakes so he called for his grandma. She could not hear him so he was stuck outside with that wicked witch all alone. Nobody was even on the street that could hear him.
" Grandmamma," a squeaky little voice said from her purse. It was her grandson and he was a mouse.
You see, witches thought that if they gave pesky little kids a special formula, that the Grand High Witch had made, they would turn into helpless little mice and then, "squash" they would step on him. Well, this is what happened to the little boy in the story.
Find out if the little boy gets away from the wicked witch. Does he get changed back? Find out in The Witches by Roald Dahl.
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Summary: Amazing...
Review: I read this book when i was 9 years old and this is one of the books will be engraved in my mind forever..The book is magical,it is told in a humorous way and the ending was great.The witches and the different characters were potrayed very well,eg:Bruno jekins,the greedy boy who's always eating.WITHOUT ANY DOUBT,THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD!
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Summary: The Witches
Review: PATRICK MOLLOY
THE WITCHES
BY ROALD DAHL
Viking Press
October 2, 2003 The author, Roald Dahl, writes books about villains who hate children. In "THE BFG" giants ate children, in "Matilda", the principal is always brutally punishing children, and in "The Enormous Crocodile", the crocodile loves eating children. Now Roald Dahl has made the ultimate child-hating monsters, disguised mysterious demons called the witches.Now a boy has seen one of the witches' top secret meetings and almost escapes normally before getting caught and being turned into a mouse, but then escapes getting stomped on and then rushes back to his grandmother, a retired expert on witches. They together make a plan to stop the witches from turning all the children in England into mice. There has also been another victim of the "mouse maker" formula, Bruno Jenkins, who's parents hate mice, have a cat, and will probably never be convinced that their son has been turned into a mouse. The witches in this book dress like ordinary women and look like ordinary women, but under their gloves, shoes, and wigs they are bald, toeless, have claws, blue spit, and a terrible hatred for children. They make the children disappear in strange ways, such as turning them into animals, paintings, statues, food, and other terrible things.They never murder or poison children, because that would mean getting caught, and witches never get caught. The other characters include the narrator( the boy who observed the meeting) who's name is never mentioned, his Grandmother, who's Norweigan, knows a lot about witches and smokes a big cigar and takes care of the boy .There is also a boy named Bruno Jenkins who is always eating and bragging about how rich his dad is. The Witches is a great fiction book . It's fun and scary for kids.
. I would recommend this book to kids who like horror, suspense, and excitement, and has an exciting triumph at the end. If you're one of those people, start reading it, because it's great.After "The Witches" I would encourage you to read even more books by Roald Dahl, such as the enourmous crocodile, the BFG, and Matilda, but I think "The Witches" is the best.
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Summary: Never got bored
Review: Can you recognize a witch? "The Witches" by Roald Dahl tells how to be able to recognize a witch. As a child I wondered if witches were real, so this was a great book for me to read. I really liked it because it is adventurous and full of fantasy. A young boy gets to experience magic first hand when he is turned into a mouse. The physical description of witches is very detailed and imaginative. The story takes place in Europe. I never got bored or felt like the story was too slow, so it was hard for me to put the book down. I actually felt like I was the main character. I loved it. With only 208 pages and some pictures, this book is a must read!!
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