The Witches

Roald Dahl

Sep 2007 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

"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.

Ratings and reviews

Despite it being a children's book, I love it. And it's been 18 years since you can classify me as children. It's the first time in my life that I read it too. Oh I would probably have quivered harder and squiled louder if I was a child when I read it. What a joy

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Its a unpredictable book and its leaves you glued to it and wondering whats going to happen next my baby loves it and i will never get over it!

About the author

Roald Dahl (Author)
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.

Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.