THE WITCHES - Roald Dahl

~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel - 1983, WAYRBA for Younger Readers - 1986, and the BILBY Award for Read Alone - 1993

This is not a fairy-tale, this is a story about 'real witches'.  Real witches are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies.  So how can you tell when you're face to face with one?  If you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly, because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children, and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them . . .  

An absolute delight to read, The Witches combines the perfect amounts of sweet and scary with the frightful nature and mission of the witches balanced by the splendidly wholesome family relationship between grandmother and grandchild.