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The Witches

Roald Dahl author Quentin Blake illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:21st Jul '22

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The Witches cover

"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."

This is a story about REAL WITCHES.

Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.

But they are far from ORDINARY . . .

The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.

That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .


The text in this edition of The Witches was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

  • Winner of Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.

ISBN: 9780241578179

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 22mm

Weight: 284g

352 pages