The Witches

Author: Roald Dahl

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Price : 16.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780141311395
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Puffin Books
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Publication date : 01 April 2001
Dimensions : 196mm X 128mm X 13mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Roald Dahl
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Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
Illustrator : Quentin Blake
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Dewey classification : 823.914
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 208
BIC subject : Classic fiction
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Description

You could be sitting next to a witch and never know it. They look just like ordinary women but they're extremely dangerous to children! Luckily for the boy in this story, his grandmother knows what signs to look for but, even so, things don't go quite as planned.

Awards

Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year Award Children's Book Category 1983.

Author description

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began writing after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.

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