![]() ![]() The boy loves all his grandmother's stories, but he is especially enthralled by the stories about real-life witches who she says are horrific female demons who seek to kill human children. The story is narrated from the perspective of an unnamed seven-year-old English boy, who goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car accident. The book has been adapted into audiobook recordings, a stage play, a 2007 two-part BBC Radio dramatization, an opera, two motion pictures and a musical stage production. In 2012, the Grand High Witch appeared on a Royal Mail commemorative postage stamp. ![]() In 2019, the BBC listed The Witches on its list of the 100 most influential novels. In 2012, the book was ranked number 81 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly. It received mixed reviews and was criticized for misogyny. The Witches was originally published by Jonathan Cape in London, with illustrations by Quentin Blake who had previously collaborated with Dahl. The witches are ruled by the vicious and powerful Grand High Witch, who arrives in England to organize her plan to turn all of the children there into mice. ![]() A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The Witches is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. ![]()
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