ISBN: 9780141311395
Release Date: 05 Apr 2001
Average rating:   (read by 173 members)

Categories: Classic fiction

This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.

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aislam2
Rated it   1 months ago
This was a fantastic read which I enjoyed every moment of!

alannat85
Rated it   2 months ago
Great book to read as an child and still enjoy now as an adult, cannot wait until my son is old enough for me to read it to him. I love the way Dahl writes in his more realistic the world isnt always rosy way.

Trishelle
Rated it   4 months ago
The best witches in childrens books ever! They're just so EVIL!!

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