Will his plan work? You must read The Witches to find out. Roald Dahl’s The Witches was extremely recommended to me by amongst my piano students, a moderate, sweet- natured 11 years of age ballerina. He then pours it into the soup they are going to be served. Our narrator sneaks into the Grand High Witch’s room and takes the formula. They come up with a plan to take the formula and feed it to the witches. Narrator Mouse and Bruno Mouse go up to Grandmamma’s room. As the meeting is breaking up, one of the witches smells the narrator. She brings in a child named Bruno and demonstrates how it works. The Witches, first published in 1983 and is reissued here for the Roald Dahl Centenary, and as with many of Dahls works it is wonderfully illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. This formula will turn children into mice. A splendiferous new hardback of The Witches, part of a collection of truly delumptious classic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases, and exquisite endpaper designs. Behind the screen, the narrator learns these are real witches.Īt the convention, the Grand High Witch shares the recipe for the secret formula she has invented. A convention of ladies comes into the room.
The narrator hides behind a screen in the ballroom to train his pet mice. Grandmother and the narrator take a vacation to the coast of southern England. She says there are ways to recognize them: wear wigs, limp (no toes), wear gloves (have clawed fingers), blue spit, large nostrils. These real witches are hard to find because they are good at disguising themselves. He tells us witches are real, and they hate children. In the story, our narrator visits his grandmother in Norway. Your students will laugh out loud at the humor in The Witches by Roald Dahl.