The Witches - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573050996 ISBN 13: 9780573050992

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

21 characters (4 males, 6 females (w/ doubling)

This popular children's book has been magically adapted into a play that toured extensively before its successful West End production at the Duke of York Theatre.

"While the kids will be thrilled by the dazzling illusions and the complex puppetry, their parents will be no less engaged by the sly humor that lurks within this ostensibly frivolous confection."-What's On

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Review:

This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! "In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they are so hard to catch." Witches, as our hero learns, hate children. With the help of a friend and his somewhat-magical grandmother, our hero tries to expose the witches before they dispose of him. Ages 7-12.

From the Inside Flap:

Classic Dahl in an enticing, collectable new format.

?REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.?

So you could be living right next door to a witch and you?d never even know it! Luckily, this story, about the defeat of the gruesome Grand High Witch and her evil cronies, points out the vital clues.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0573050996
• ISBN 13: 9780573050992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80